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...been raised too high? Some teachers and parents complain that the tests are too exhaustive--and exhausting--for young students. The Massachusetts test clocked in at 16 hours, spread over several weeks. Tina Yalen, an eighth-grade civics teacher, gave her opinion of the Virginia test: "Some of it looked like Trivial Pursuit to me." More worrisome is how a 10-year-old will react if his or her result is branded with a scarlet F. Says Harvard's Reville: "An overload of negative feedback runs the risk that students are going to shut down and not make an effort...
CLUH members feared that the University would violate students' right to privacy by using card key information irresponsibly, then-CLUH director Robert W. Yalen '95 said at the time...
...only a small step towards the comprehensive change in rules that Harvard needs to adopt, but it seems like a step in the right direction," said Robert W. Yalen '95, former director of the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard (CLUH), which recently released a comprehensive report on computing rights at Harvard...
...wish they would be much more precise, and Ithink it is possible for them to be more precisein informing students exactly what sort ofactivities they may not do." Yalen said...
...Executive Board of the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard, call on the dean to apologize for the removal of these banners and for the Kennedy School to adopt a policy on public speeches similar to the one adopted by FAS. Robert W. Yalen '95 Civil Liberties Union of Harvard