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Apprenticeship has produced promising results in various experimental programs. Techniques devised by Ann Brown and Annemarie Palincsar, while doing education research at the University of Illinois, raised reading-comprehension , scores in a Springfield seventh-grade class from 20% to 80% in 20 days. The method was to make the children approach a text the way a teacher does: by formulating questions, summarizing, predicting what will come next and isolating problems...
...Murray Center focuses not on the specific problem of hiring and promoting women faculty, but on recording and studying women's various experiences. Each year, the Murray Center accommodates more than 10 fellows who have their own funding and a particular research project...
...models show the buildings and lay-out of the University at various dates since its founding 353 years ago. They depict how Harvard changed from a small college in a pastoral setting to a mammoth institution amid a bustling city...
...while recruiting faculty and staff for Core courses cuts across the various areas of the Core, most of the other academic concerns remain specifically tied to individual fields...
...publication--actually a fairly dry compilation of news briefs about affirmative action in the University's various faculties--seems incongruous in the office of a Harvard dean, most of whom studiously avoid reference to the thorny tangle of issues raised by the hiring of women and minorities...