Word: peering
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Your article "Beyond The Gender Myths" [SPECIAL REPORT, Oct. 19] quotes an educator who imagines that a Utopia can be created in which "sexual stereotypes don't shape education." This assumes that gender influences on parents, teachers, peer groups, media and writers about the subject of education have disappeared and that academic skills and interests are now present in pristine condition. As everyone knows, we have not yet reached this state. Single-sex education works because it gives girls a few valuable years in which to recover confidence and feel that they can make a difference in a culture that...
Even though UHS's subsidy alone will not pay for an entire abortion procedure, Aisha M. Thompson '99, director of Peer Contraceptive Counseling, says the monetary support is significant...
...Peer undergraduate grading of subjective work, a practice which occurs at Harvard College (see my column of two weeks ago), is indicative of a larger problem with the quality of undergraduate education at Harvard: Due to the small number of Faculty member and qualified teaching fellows relative to the number of students, finding quality instruction at Harvard College is not guaranteed. Instead, it is a task. Some students perform it very well, but for the many others who do not, a tradition of excellence--and not excellence itself--may be what they're getting for their money...
...because everyone is well-adjusted and has it all under control: school, friends, even life after college. But I think not. Keep going to UHS and the Bureau of Study Counsel. And when all seems blue and you're not ready to deal with therapy, consider calling your friendly peer counselors. They're all set for your call...
...supposed to be in classes being brilliant," Bagneris said. "I'm not supposed to be designing peer relations programs. I'm perfectly willing to do them, but we want to be taken seriously...