Word: reporte
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...stinging report released yesterday, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching became the latest voice in a chorus criticizing research universities like Harvard for treating undergraduates like "second-class citizens...
...report, a survey of the state of undergraduate teaching at 125 "research universities" around the country, singled out several major failings of such schools--including huge and impersonal lecture classes and a failure to engage students with opportunities for research-and discussion-centered learning...
Harvard administrators said yesterday that they are reserving judgment until they review the report's research methods. They also pointed to recent reforms in the Core curriculum and efforts to train graduate students to be better instructors as proof that Harvard is already addressing some of the report's concerns...
...Harvard observers and Carnegie Foundation committee members say Harvard is not above the report's rebuke...
...Although Harvard looks better than most [research institutions], in its exploitation of undergraduates it ranks right up there with the rest of them," said Wayne Booth, a professor at the University of Chicago and a member of the committee that issued the report...