Word: reassessing
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...declining, says social scientist James Q. Wilson, and the reason is the collapse of the traditional family structure. On March 21, HarperCollins will publish "The Marriage Problem: How Our Culture Has Weakened Families." Says his publisher, "Wilson offers an alarming portrait of modern marriage and argues that we must reassess our values in order to preserve the strength of family in a culture in which divorce and single parenthood has become more widespread than ever...
Therefore, we believe that reducing grade inflation can only be accomplished through a coordinated Faculty-wide effort to reassess and clarify Harvard’s standards. These standards should be based both on accumulating knowledge in a subject and reasoning critically about that knowledge. Along with higher standards, oversight is key to ensuring that professors and TFs are consistently adhering to those standards...
...order to keep Harvard’s wages fair, Summers must actively follow up and reassess wages often within the collective bargaining framework. But when wages rise, that increase must not be used as an excuse to lay off workers, even if the economy is struggling through a recession...
Council members said College administrators are willing to reassess television policy but that actual progress on the issue could take many years...
...both among Faculty and students—about the value of time spent elsewhere as opposed to time spent at Harvard,” Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz says. “But I think the balance has shifted and it’s time to reassess how we present ourselves to the world...