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...heart of the article is that a former graduate student, forced to leave the university on medical grounds and now living in China, has accused the Harvard Economics Department of discrimination and accused one of its world-class faculty members of sexual advances...
...your perpetual relevance mystifies those of us who have never dared to venture into the whimsical world of Greg Mankiw. But seriously, must every humorous class reference be about Ec 10 or Life Sci? How about a little love for Math 21a or CS50...
...This is exactly what's happening in a pilot program that started this month at three vocational high schools in disadvantaged suburbs of Paris. Accounts will be set up for two classes in each school, each containing around $3,000 apiece. If the students maintain good attendance records and reach performance targets agreed upon with their teachers, reward payments will be added to their class account. But here's the catch: the students can't go and spend the money on a new iPod or an Xbox at the end of the year. Each account, which could reach a maximum...
...government's objective is simple: increase student motivation and class attendance and reduce the number of French teenagers who leave school without earning a diploma or professional training certificate, roughly 120,000 to 150,000 each year. The program is being tested at vocational schools, not at the more traditional high schools that most students attend to prepare for the Baccalaureate exam - and university study beyond. The reason: students at vocational schools, particularly those in marginalized, immigrant-heavy areas, tend to have the most performance problems in France. Many students feel like failures after ending up in professional schools. Some...
...Public School Students group. "We should spend this money making sure vocational students who wanted to learn cooking can get into those programs rather than being shunted into car repair because there was no room left. Instead, students are being paid off to compensate [for] their boredom." (Read "The Class: A Year in the Blackboard Jungle...