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...should be graduating without at least some basic knowledge or skill sets, the observed deficiencies in their baseline ability are reflective of failures in a separate domain, namely that of secondary education. Because America’s high schools are where basic reading, writing, and quantitative skills should be taught, they are also where the accountability for substandard performance in basic skills should lie; illiterate and innumerate students should not be receiving diplomas or making their way to college in the first place. Remarks made earlier this month by the Commission’s chairman Charles Miller suggest that...
Most freshmen can roll out of bed at 10:57 a.m. for Expos at 11 a.m. But for the select few in Freshman Seminar 21w, the journey to class is a little more rugged. Their class is jointly taught by Dr. David R. Foster and Mother Nature herself, deep in the heart of the Harvard forest. A forest, you say? Yes, my child, a forest. Indeed, in 1907, Harvard bought a forest, and soon added a museum, colonial farmhouses, and, most importantly, DSL. According to Forest Director Dr. David R. Foster—whose last name...
...years Heather has served on this faculty, she has become an important and superb scholar.” “I will miss her very much, as I know everyone else will,” she wrote.Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Richard H. Fallon, who taught with Gerken last year, called her departure a “terrible loss” for the Law School. “[Gerken] is a stunningly gifted teacher,” Fallon wrote in an e-mail. “A year ago, she and I co-taught a year-long seminar called...
...years that followed, I would have to develop a more nuanced view of America. What do I make of it, then, after living there for more than a decade? A few years ago, I taught a composition class at a college in Iowa. Among my students were an immigrant from Guatemala, an Indian who grew up in London, a Japanese-American out of North Carolina, a Philippine-Chinese-American, and several very blond students from the American heartland, including a white supremacist who defended her family's racism in front of the class. This extraordinary mix of students strikes...
...determination to close itself off from the outside world. Today, with China emerging as a more global power economically and diplomatically, Americans need to learn for the first time how Chinese view the world. It's never easy to bridge such gaps?but as my American students and friends taught me, life is infinitely richer...