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...don’t really have a sense of what kind of pedagogy goes on in the classroom,” Allen said. “In order to fix what students are complaining about we need something...
...bright side, if adopted, the report’s solid recommendations, such as the suggested expansion of the junior seminar program, will do something to better undergraduate teaching. Junior seminars are a good way of increasing student-faculty interaction and encouraging the type of classroom experience that undergraduates ought to expect at Harvard. There is no reason why students at Harvard must necessarily be denied the kind of faculty interaction that students at small liberal arts colleges get simply because they chose to attend a research university. Other laudable proposals include requiring that all tutorial programs be headed...
...cost of their programs is exorbitant, ranging from $2295 for nine days for Brighton to $2899 for thirteen days for Musiker. But you’d better bet you get your money’s worth—at least when it comes to hours spent in the classroom. The website for Academic Study Associates insists that a typical day includes no less than three hours of the Princeton Review’s Beat the SAT, two hours of essay writing and an hour-and-a-half of one-on-one counseling and admissions workshops. All three programs claim that...
...CHANGING FROM A REASONING TEST TO A TEST OF CLASSROOM SKILLS, INCLUDING WRITING. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR STUDENTS IN BAD SCHOOLS? The ability to write well is central to education, and so I'm glad that that's going to be reflected in the SAT. I would certainly oppose any changes in the SAT that would reward special preparation of kinds only open to some, rather than measuring effort and aptitude in ways that were fair...
...18th chromosome is missing. "A boy at my school used to make fun of me, so I wanted to show him this," Elizabeth explains. After graduation in May, Elizabeth plans to attend a local community college, and then become a teacher's assistant in a hearing-impaired classroom and perhaps move out to California. One thing she can count on: her mother will be cheering...