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People born after 1980 tend to have a distinctive style of handwriting: a little bit sloppy, a little bit childish and almost never in cursive. The knee-jerk explanation is that computers are responsible for our increasingly illegible scrawl, but Steve Graham, a special-education and literacy professor at Vanderbilt University, says that's not the case. The simple fact is that kids haven't learned to write neatly because no one has forced them to. "Writing is just not part of the national agenda anymore," he says. (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...
...Nation at Risk, on the dismal state of public education, ushered in a new era of standardized assessment that has intensified since the passage in 2002 of the No Child Left Behind Act. "In schools today, they're teaching to the tests," says Tamara Thornton, a University of Buffalo professor and the author of a history of American handwriting. "If something isn't on a test, it's viewed as a luxury." Garcia agrees. "It's getting harder and harder to balance what's on the test with the rest of what children need to know," she says. "Reading...
...University President Drew G. Faust has appointed Government professor Gary King, a quantitative social science expert, Harvard’s second Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor, replacing the late political scientist Samuel P. Huntington. Medical School professor Marc W. Kirschner has become the third John Franklin Enders University Professor—a post named for the Harvard researcher who played a crucial role in developing the polio vaccine...
...probably a triple-threat professor,” political scientist and former University Professor Sidney Verba said of King. “He believes in the social sciences deeply, and his goal, I think, is to try to make it as scientific as possible...
...King is not solely focused on the social sciences’ quantitative side, said Government Professor Kenneth A. Shepsle. “He’s actually interested in getting young scholars to take whatever evidence they have in whatever form it comes in—whether qualitative or quantitative—and simply be systematic about it,” Shepsle said...