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...Intrigued by his presentation, several students later looked up some of his peer-reviewed articles and found that Richardson was on Millennium’s advisory board—a potential conflict of interest that was not disclosed during the session with Richardson and his patient...
...educational quality - at four-year schools across the country. The survey, which is funded by the nonprofit Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, provides hundreds of colleges and universities with some of the most comprehensive data available on how well they're engaging students compared to their peer institutions. The survey's main goal is to help schools figure out how to do a better job of educating college kids. Now, however, more and more school presidents - fed up with what they are feel are arbitrary school rankings - are making the benchmarks public as an alternative resource for college...
...Today last year managed to convince a lot of colleges to participate in its interactive database, which uses several sets of bar graphs to show how a particular school stacks up against a group of peer institutions. But the database doesn't provide numerical rankings. Which means consumers have to gather a lot of data and do their own calculations to compare one school to another, which is precisely the kind of thoughtful research colleges wants prospective students to be doing. (See pictures of eighth-graders being recruited for college basketball...
...report is forthcoming. No specific date for its release has yet been set.Until it is published, the exact contents of the Task Force’s report will remain a mystery to students and other members of the Harvard arts community. While the Task Force has taken into account peer institutions, past Harvard reforms, and student opinions, all that can be certain at this point is that, like all institutional reforms at Harvard, the implementation of Task Force’s findings will take time.PEERING AROUNDEnglish professor and Task Force head Stephen J. Greenblatt and several other members declined...
...added that some practices—such as ESPN 360, which is only made available through certain Internet service providers—make the Internet less neutral. Other examples of network regulation in violation of net neutrality include Comcast’s alleged restriction of uploads for peer-to-peer sharing applications such as BitTorrent, which sparked an FCC hearing at the Law School last February. The Berkman Center sponsored a petition that encouraged the FCC to oppose Internet service providers that discriminated by content. But Palfrey said that he was excited for the future of network neutrality...