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Nearly two years ago, writing scholar and long-time Director of Harvard’s expository writing program Nancy Sommers departed suddenly, leaving a program wrought with office politics and concerns about preceptor salaries and job security. In the wake of Sommers’ departure, long-time Writing Program employee...
What are women doing instead? Teaching, mostly. Women spend more time (7.5 hours a week) on grading or commenting on student work than men (6 hours). They also spend 10.9 hours a week on course preparation, compared to 9.1 weekly hours for men. While these "microdifferences" are not significant week...
Last week, Registrar Barry S. Kane announced that students who complete their Q evaluations online will be able to access their final grades immediately after the end of the examination period instead of having to wait the usual 10 days. The end-of-semester evaluations, which are mandatory for all...
The most crucial question facing the company, however, is quite basic: does Rosetta Stone actually work? The company's teaching method is called "dynamic immersion," in which users are taught a new language through images, text, and sound. There is neither translation nor grammar explanations. You learn by listening to...
"We did all the things boys should do. Hunting birds, swimming in the big rivers, fighting with sticks - what we call in Zulu the man-making. It was absolutely wonderful. The teaching of respect was deep - how to live in a community, how to do the things a man ought...