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...particular subject would be included—and seemed to care about little else. For instance, when a bid to include history in one category failed, an amendment to require some sort of historical study succeeded. The result is a curriculum that by including everything has become bland gruel.Consequently, students?? worst fears look set to be realized: General Education will be nothing more than Core version 2.0. Why over four years’ infighting, squabbling, and report-writing was necessary to spawn it is a mystery. The Faculty has essentially spent that time renaming course categories?...
...Harvard education should “seek to prepare students for civic engagement, to teach students to understand themselves as products of—and participants in—traditions of art, ideas, and values, to prepare students to respond critically and constructively to change, and to develop students?? understanding of the ethical dimensions of what they say and do.” Exploring gender, and challenging gender inequity, complements these goals, and will thus continue to be the focus of our work. Far from having a rigid view of what gender can and should mean to each...
...year I asked my students some very basic conceptual questions and discovered that they were unable to answer them. By comparing my students?? performance on various types of problems, I came to the agonizing conclusion that many students were simply making it through the course by rote memorization. Beyond the familiar context, they were unable to apply even the most basic principles. Suddenly the illusion of being a good teacher was shattered...
...Studies has a cache to it, and some seniors have told me that they didn’t know what to do and they chose Social Studies because of its prestige.” She added, “Social Studies is a major commitment. We reject a few students??a very few—because of their academic record, but it’s really an issue of students?? ability to commit to the concentration.” Committee Chair and Thomson Professor of Government Richard Tuck also said, “We need...
...survey: did students seek out mental health services while they were at Harvard? Where will they be living next year? How much will they be getting paid? Though many of Harvard’s peer institutions collect and publish data on the career paths of Harvard students??Princeton, Cornell, and the University of Pennsylvania, for example—Harvard does...