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...Poverty is seen as major risk factor for a number of outcomes on adolescents,” Sampson said. “This has led to major policy changes in the United States and a new set of academic studies to try to understand...
...want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms,” he tells us. As an artist, one must understand that what matters is not some artificial plot but rather the truth—or, in other words, the “reality”—one conveys. Shields writes, “[It’s] not the story. It’s just this breathtaking world—that’s the point.” If these are the foundations of Shields’ manifesto, has all of this...
Sylla’s discussion—which was sponsored by the Harvard College Queer Students and Allies, the Trans Task Force, and Girlspot—mainly drew on several scientific and sociological studies to address the question of how to understand bisexuality...
...many students, the thought of going to section as opposed to enjoying the increasingly warm weather is enough to make them cringe. The prospect of attending a section in which the Teaching Fellow has an accent so pronounced that it is challenging to understand even the simplest phrases is even more unappealing. Even when the problem is not the language itself, many foreign TFs have trouble understanding things like extracurricular commitments and why students occasionally eat in class...
...unfortunate that students have to worry about communication barriers when they are already struggling to learn and understand the course material. This problem has become a growing issue at Harvard and seems to especially affect students taking courses in math and the sciences, where classes are often large and English is not necessarily internal to the subject matter. In an attempt to remedy this problem, the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning launched a pilot class in which TFs who are not native English speakers could learn skills to break the cultural and communication barriers in the classroom...