Word: rigorousity
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Like the task force on advising and counselling, the task force came out in favor of "no-choice" pre-freshman housing assignments, modeled after the Yale system. It also advocated giving credit for the performing arts as long as "such activities are part of an analytically and theoretically rigorous course...
The film is a little self-consciously poignant. It carries its point as if it were a burden-which, to Germans especially, it undoubtedly is. Jacob's only reprieve is in his imagination. He tells his niece a fairy tale about a commoner who cures a princess's...
For example, in place of the three distinct science offerings, now exists "Math and Science," which according to the Faculty resolution will cover "the critical understanding of science and its use in the systematic analysis of natural and human phenomena." This change, as well as all the other changes made...
Douglas reasons thus: the stern, rigorous theology of the Puritan fathers was eventually weakened by the less demanding beliefs of such sects as Congregationalism and Unitarianism. Women, once full working partners in clearing and planting the New World, were turned by industrialization and commerce into homemakers and clotheshorses. Shunted to...
One school that Hentoff mentions is P.S. 91, an elementary school in a "disadvantaged" neighborhood of Brooklyn where principal Martin Schor refused to accept the notion that poor children are handicapped in learning to read. Schor's efforts resulted in a dramatic improvement in reading scores--51 per cent of...