Word: scholasticism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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But Professor Peter N. Kiang '80 of the University of Massachusetts at Boston, who also spoke at the forum, said that many of the criteria used to evaluate the success of Asian-Americans are misleading. Supposedly objective measures of success, such as median family income, scores on the Scholastic Aptitude...
Jewett's report indicated that there is significant variation among the houses in athletic and other extracurricular participation, scholastic achievement, ethnic and socioeconomic representation and area of concentration.
Under former Dean James Vorenberg '49, Harvard was a pioneer in clinical studies, which gives students courtroom experience representing indigent clients. But Clark says he will expand the programs to underscore their scholastic component.
In Texas, where such tests have been mandatory since 1985, average scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test have remained flat and the dropout rate high. Critics maintain that real learning has been stifled. "Teachers are teaching to the test," says John Moore, chairman of the education department at San Antonio...
In contrast to most American dramatists, who have excelled at depicting the struggles of home and hearth but not the larger world, Hwang thinks more shrewdly about mankind than about individual men and women. He has the steel- trap analytic grasp of the champion scholastic debater he once was, the...