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...veteran director of Harvard’s Secondary School Program (SSP)—known for her direct style of interaction and exacting standards??is retiring from her post with the closure of this summer term. She hopes to take advantage of her first year away from the Cambridge bustle to finish a nonfiction book called So There, Stupid World that she began as a student several years ago, she says...
...quota is harmful because the mere idea of it scares students away. Quotas are wrong because they are arbitrary and increase the chances that students will get grades lower than what they deserve. Furthermore, they’re not at all necessary to achieving the wider task of raising standards??if that indeed is the goal of people like Mansfield and Jasanoff. There are many classes at Harvard that lack quotas but still have such difficult requirements that few students earn grades...
...accountable for test results. The logic is clear, but the premise is false. The standards-based movement, including our local version, the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), is based on the faulty assumption that standardized instruction and standardized tests breed high intellectual standards and that the “standards?? established will truly break the cycle of inequality...
...their first term at Harvard, the minimum academic requirements are at most one failing grade, and at least one satisfactory letter grade.” In the past two-years, eight students have met the first-semester standards, but failed to meet the College’s higher standards??future students in this situation would be affected by the proposed policy change...
...There’s a strong concern to maintain the tradition, the Ivy League tradition of scholar-athletes and to agree together to maintain academic standards??not to sacrifice academic standards to the objectives of athletic recruitment,” Summers says...