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...would recruiters, or even a full-fledged ROTC establishment, hurt? Would recruiters go out of their way to harangue students, or actively repress homosexuality on campus-—just the things that the anti-discrimination policies are meant to prevent? Would there be any lack of warnings or teach-ins admonishing would-be cadets of the existence of “don’t ask, don’t tell?” Hardly. It is not Harvard’s job to act as chaperones to those students who might, by some opponents’ logic, fall...
...says. "But when I saw what the College Board was and, more important, what it could be, I saw the power to do much more than they were doing in the past to improve education." Under his watch, the board is issuing quite specific recommendations about what schools should teach--for instance, math lessons should include radical equations (such as 5 (square root of x) + 14 = 20; x = 1.44). Also, the board says most students should double the amount of time they spend writing (a laudable but pricey goal: some schools will have to initiate a round of hiring, since...
...idea is that the test's rigorous new curricular demands will lift all boats--that all schools will improve because they want their students to do well on the test. Schools have long tried to prepare kids for the SAT, but education experts scorned the practice of openly teaching to the test. Now it's the mission of the College Board that every school should teach to the SAT. "I would say that the most important aspect of this test is sending a real message back to kids on how to prepare for college," says Atkinson. It's not clear...
Some educators also fear that SAT prep will move from helping students improve their vocabulary to teaching them how to scribble hasty compositions in 25 or 30 minutes (the College Board hasn't settled on an essay time limit). "I'd hate to see all our English teachers begin to teach a formulaic style of writing to prepare students for this particular test," says college adviser Alice Kleeman of Menlo-Atherton High School in Atherton, Calif. "Adjustments might have to be made so that students can practice the type of essays expected on the SAT while reinforcing the idea that...
Sekler is the first director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and returns to Harvard each spring to teach at the GSD. Working with Sert, Sekler developed the GSD’s curriculum on the history of architecture, and last night he credited Sert for creating the urban development program...