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Dartmouth may be far different from Harvard in terms of recruitment, but it has a strikingly similar history. In 1769, Dartmouth founder Reverend Eleazar Wheelock was able to raise substantial funds for the College from the Royal Governor of New Hampshire after penning a charter that devoted Dartmouth to “the education and instruction of Youth of the Indian Tribes in the Land and also of English Youth and any others.” For the next two centuries, Dartmouth, like Harvard, failed to fulfill its promises. However, in his 1970 inauguration, Dartmouth President John G. Kemeny pledged...
Earlier this month, the Barbara Krakow Gallery on 10 Newbury Street exhibited a new and seemingly random assortment of art, including works by Josef Albers, Donald Judd, Sol Lewitt, Brice Marden, Allan McCollum, Fred Sandback, and Bill Wheelock. Barbara Krakow includes international and local artists in her exhibitions. This is not necessarily because she is an egalitarian. She also uses her aesthetic judgment in choosing what artwork she will show...
...Cloud” (2001) by Bill Wheelock was by far the most impressive work in the show. It is comprised of strings of monofilament, and sections are painted red so that there seems to be a hazy, red sphere floating within a Plexiglas cube when seen from a distance. The unimaginable use of space, color, and medium in this work reflects the genius Wheelock makes us of in most of his works. However, his use of common materials—lines of texts in a jar or huge cubes of aluminum—and his toying with spatial perception seem...
...team--educational writer Anne Wheelock,Boston College Professor Walter Haney and SalemState Professor Clarke Fowler--published a reportcritiquing the MECT as unreliable, citing a highmargin of error, a huge variance between readingand writing scores and test administrationtroubles...
...despite the lack of access to the exam questions, education writer Anne Wheelock, Boston College Professor Walter Haney and Salem State College Professor Clarke Fowler managed to find enough discrepancies in the scores themselves (coupled with interviews of test-takers) to declare the test an unfair indicator of teacher preparation...