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...represent the set of traditional values the majority of Americans wish the government to promote, it does not bode well for Democrats to dismiss their points of view as extremist. This only serves to promote the image of the party platform as a mere checklist of economic reforms??an image that has lost us more than one election in the past...
...increase accountability and cost-effectiveness, according to Unit Test Coordinator Thomas E. Wei. In an e-mail sent Wednesday to test graders for the course (commonly referred to as “Ec 10”), Wei wrote that the Unit Test program “will undergo significant reforms?? next semester, including reducing the number of graders, enhancing channels for feedback, and rewarding grading performance with monetary bonuses. Wei said that the reduction in the number of test graders was not financially motivated. Although there will be fewer graders, Wei said the move actually will...
...million people were living below the poverty line. As the journalist Naomi Klein has noted, given that only two million were poor in 1989 (defined here as living on less than $4 per day), this “means that Russia’s ‘economic reforms?? can claim credit for the impoverishment of 72 million people in only eight years.” Or consider South Africa, where an African National Congress disciplined by the whims of transnational capital was forced to abandon its apartheid-era radicalism and fall in line: from...
...Task Force on Teaching and Career Development at FAS released an extensive report which suggests tying pay raises to teaching in more extensive and explicit ways. Such changes are critical to improve pedagogy at Harvard, which can be wildly inconsistent. We hope that person who will actually institute these reforms??the next FAS dean—will follow HMS’s lead. Then, maybe, he or she will also be “a dean of the students...
...Teaching and Career Development and published in January, seeks to address growing concerns about how Faculty members balance teaching and research, according to the committee’s chair, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Theda Skocpol.In the midst of this year’s curricular reforms??the introduction of more than 30 secondary fields, delayed concentration choice, changes in advising—the report on teaching and learning has been most significantly overshadowed by the ongoing debate over general education and its future at Harvard.The Faculty is scheduled to vote on general education legislation...