Word: overcrowdedness
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Smith conducted nearly 150 interviews and sifted through mounds of articles and books devoted to Diana for this volume. But despite entering an already overcrowded field, Smith has produced a well-written, evenhanded work. There is also, remarkably, still a bit of juice to be squeezed from this particular fruit...
Some educators bristle at bringing such touchy-feely topics into an already overcrowded curriculum. "I know of no evidence that marriage courses lead to better marriages," says Brookings Institution senior fellow Diane Ravitch. "But I do know of a great deal of evidence that schools are doing a poor job...
Not that the 740 students of Willard Elementary are broken up about it. The K-4 school is so old and overcrowded that Marion Stern teaches reading in a converted bathroom; Riel Sbar teaches special-needs kids in a hallway; and two other classes have been pushed into dusty corners...
But what about Harvard's role as an educational institution? I worry that in the pursuit of the larger gifts to add to an already burgeoning endowment, in the pursuit of more big-name scholars and researchers, instructing students has been left by the wayside. In addition to inadequate advising...
Additionally, as the enrollment numbers beganto drop post-war, the already overcrowded dormsbegan to open a little and allow the students whohad been commuting to live on campus with theirclassmates.