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...site is just the first high-tech step in the Centre's mission to break down communication barriers between deaf and hearing people. A British Sign Language phone phrasebook should be released in the next year, plus the Centre has started to build a basic foreign-language phrasebook at www.deafstation.org, which will allow signers from Britain, Germany, Spain and Sweden to speak to each other...
...curricular improvement to departments and concentrations. Individual course heads are not the only ones who must rise to the occasion. Departmental chairs and directors of undergraduate and graduate study face even more daunting challenges, for they must orchestrate collegial efforts to improve course offerings and advising, enhance training in basic skills, and sharpen the preparation of teaching fellows. Rather than pepper departments with disconnected demands from separate University Hall offices, FAS must ensure that department leaders have real-time information and flexible resources. Starting next year, FAS should give multi-year grants to allow departments to plan and execute coordinated...
Give teachers time and resources to design new and significantly enriched courses—courses with broader appeal, compelling goals, and a capacity to actively engage students in solving problems, improving basic skills, and handling authentic materials. Most faculty members will not need to do additional teaching, but virtually all will need to sharpen their teaching skills and develop broader course offerings (often using research assistance or a month of paid summer time). Compelling and effective courses will be in demand for secondary fields and electives as well as general education—and three years from now we should...
SYDNEY Even at throwaway prices, when it comes to Ikea's plastic-and-steel Herman chair ($23), Australians play it safe with basic black or white...
...American social, political, legal, and economic practices and institutions.” The requirement is a sound one, but it is not a solution to the fundamental concern underlying it: that in an era of accelerating globalization, too many of Harvard’s American students lack a basic affective attachment to their country and its culture...