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...really are working at a standard that I don’t think you necessarily get otherwise,” she says...
...It’s more or less a nine-to-five thing,” he insists. “It’s very much a standard job, except that it involves a lot of slightly different activities...
...task force’s modesty concerning anything an educated person should know prevents it from establishing any sort of educational standard. If you were to read through the rest of the Gen Ed report, you’d find that the task force never does get around to saying whether there is any specific content whatsoever that an educated person should know. Officially, Harvard will not even broach the topic of whether specific information is necessary for education, let alone declare in what way excellence comes from academic study. In general, the language of this report centers...
...terms that the Press uses to describe its project confront the standard top-down model of literary education. They call the creative interpretation of literature “intervention,” and teachers “facilitators.” “If this is a revolution,” says Doris Sommer, a Professor of Romance Languages and Literature and African and African American Studies, “it’s in the spirit of [Marxist thinker Antonio] Gramsci—of reformism through cultural practices, because it gets people to read and write...
...example, the process of obtaining government approval for building new nuclear reactors will be streamlined by developing standard certification procedures for certain generic types of reactors. Also, the “early site permit” component allows firms to receive government approval for their proposed site prior to making their final go-ahead decision. The program sets up a mechanism for firms to simultaneously obtain construction and operating licenses, with the latter conditional on the plant being built to specification. Furthermore, specific provisions in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 offer tax breaks, cost-over...