Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such clarity of purpose represents a notable change. When computers were first introduced into American schools in the 1960s, they were used the way filmstrips and learning machines had been: to present lessons that progressed $ at a pace consistent with a student's ability. Even today a lively market exists for programs that prepare students for the Scholastic Aptitude Tests or drill them on the multiplication table. But software manufacturers have been less successful in attempts to transfer textbooks onto floppy disks. Texts, after all, usually cost less than $25 and can be used year after year. Most computerized education...
Harvard set a blistering pace in its semifinal effort Saturday, never trailing Cambridge University. The Crimson won that contest with a time...
...professors don't have enough contact with students, a typical criticism but one not usually voiced by top administrators. He has also said that both students and professors don't have the workload they should and that they have too much free time. Although he seems frustrated by the pace of change at Harvard, you may see some new crackdowns in education motivated by Spence's first appointment in office...
...which features preps, Business Schoolers and lots of crew paraphernalia. A long walk up Mass. Ave. will take you to the Plough and Stars and Jack's (952 Mass. Ave.) These two rarely see a Harvard student, but you might want to try them for a change of pace...
...appears to be relaxing his pace a bit. Says a friend who has known him since 1975: "This is one immigrant who took immigration very seriously." He has applied for American citizenship and has no thoughts of returning to the Soviet Union. "I have an American child," he says, speaking of Shura, 4, his daughter with Actress Jessica Lange. "It still amazes me that she talks without a Russian accent. I thought it was genetic...