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...Having lecturers or professors—nor preceptors—teach the new writing course...
Freed Professor of Economics Caroline M. Hoxby ’88 said that her department is “glad to teach any student who wants to learn economics” but that she and her colleagues are worried that a quick increase in the number of students taking economics could swamp the department’s resources...
...successful, the Harvard College Curricular Review will transform introductory courses from the narrowly focused Core designed to teach a “way of knowing” into a sweeping, interdisciplinary intellectual odyssey. In order to do so, however, changes must go beyond a mere shuffling of syllabi and involve fundamental changes in pedagogy. We believe this will require reform in Harvard’s stringent policies on hiring full-time teachers.On this page, we have repeatedly maligned the Core Curriculum and endorsed the recommendation of the review’s Committee on General Education, in which students would...
...necessary is some form of standardized testing. A standardized educational curriculum is mandated through high school. This is the timeframe in which states are required to provide students the basic skills they need to be “productive” members of society. If the states cannot teach children basic algebra and other essential skills in 12 or sometimes 13 years, why should the burden fall to universities? Standardized testing already exists in high schools thanks to illegitimate, improper federal bullying such as the No Child Left Behind Act. This practice, imposing a national standardized education curriculum, is improper...
...home of sex pioneer Alfred Kinsey's institute, displays Michelangelo's David and Playboy covers in her class but "no X-rated movies," she says. "Those are not a good way to explain porn," which she believes is best taught with the same dispassion with which one would teach a course on statistics...