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23 hours ago ago from Medically Mind Numbing
A few days ago in the 2nd year class, I probably sat through one of the most awkward situations ever. Let me tell you the wonderful story. The students of the MS2 class were sitting in the classroom. Our professor was an experienced and seasoned medical professional who is simultaneously looked up to and somewhat feared by medical students. Let's just say, people know him. Anyways, he is teaching away about what it means to be a ...
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7 hours ago ago from Dartblog
Economics Professor Andrew Samwick writes in with a suggestion for greater precision in our examination of small classes: The fall term is not representative of the full year of economics courses, as we do not offer any of our 40-level culminating experience courses in the fall. (We do offer one of the three 80-level courses that form an honors sequence, 80-81-82.) If you look at the full list of economics courses , you will see that we ...
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14 hours ago ago from FemaleScienceProfessor
'Tis the season for teaching evaluations (yet again, yet again), so in the spirit of this special time, I shall continue my intermittent evaluation of evaluations and teaching. On quite a few occasions in my career, I have been a member of various sorts of evaluating committees that examine the research, teaching, and/or service activities of faculty within and beyond my department. In some cases these committees look at a single year of ...
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15 hours ago ago from Jazzonomics
As I was surfing through the flotsam and jetsam of the blogosphere, I came across this post on Classification of Students A professor of Network Analysis taking a dig at the students on Teacher's Day . And frankly speaking, this was it. Emotions were up to the brim and I had to defend the students. This is the student version - to which the readers are free to add on and comment upon. A Professor/Teacher at any given instance of ...
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20 hours ago ago from Hare Krishna
An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single student before but had, once, failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said ok, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism. All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would ...
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9 hours ago ago from Washington Post - World
EDUCATION Dropouts say need to work drove decision The primary reason young adults drop out of college is an inability to juggle school and work, according to a report released Wednesday. Jean Johnson of Public Agenda, a nonpartisan public policy research firm that surveyed more than 600 people ages 22 to 30 for the report , said the research reflects a very, very different reality from the common image most people have of college as a ...
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1 hour, 57 minutes ago ago from PopEater
HENDERSON, Nev., Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- In the wake of the Obama Administration's unveiling of its "Educate to Innovate" campaign to revitalize education in the U.S., Mangahigh ( www.mangahigh.com ) today launches the first curriculum-focused, games-based learning site in the U.S. focusing on math for 11 to 16 year olds. The company also announced new social features, based on casual games models, such as the display of awards, rankings and ...
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