Harvard Instituting Remedial Math Class
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Anonymous
MIT grads were so arrogant we no longer recruit them at our company. They were terrible team players. The only thing they could do was brag they went to MIT. Couldn’t take direction or criticism. Insufferable. |
Anonymous
But all of it is at the insistence of their parents in order to go to an Ivy. So formulaic. It’s like a “plug and chug” personality. Intrinsic motivation is completely absent. |
Anonymous
Sure, I mean Harvard can place more emphasis on diversity and race over aptitude and merit all it wants. But Harvard grads can't cry later as they start tanking in ratings and the Harvard name brand becomes more synonymous with slightly above mediocre rather than excellence. Employers take note and will draw less and less from less qualified Harvard candidates. What took 300 years to build in terms of name brand and excellence is going to be demolished in only 20 years because of overemphasizing race and diversity above all else. Have fun with that fallout. Tbh, Harvard has already reached a breaking point and is past the point of no return. Grads from schools like MIT, CalTech, Rice, GAtech, CMU, Princeton, etc. are more impressive. And in terms of the world, I doubt Harvard is even top 20 anymore. Grads from Tsinghua, National University of Singapore, University of Tokyo, Oxbridge, Imperial College of London, etc. are all more impressive grads. Many other countries in the world give zero craps about diversity at all costs. Americans would be in for a shocking eye opener if they looked at global rankings. US schools are falling fast, because they're backsliding into medicority due to identity politics. China is eating US' lunch now in engineering and STEM. US continues to go down the tubes because we do is enroll mediocre students like at Harvard who now need remedial algebra - the same class Asian students have mastered since about the 4th grade. |
Anonymous
please, that is no different that strivy white people. |
Anonymous
| It’s good they’re providing these kids support. When are other schools going to do the same. It’s a nationwide problem, not just an Harvard problem. |
Anonymous
Yeah this isn't true. Gentleman's Club yes, Wealthy and Powerful yes, Best and brughhtes researchers yes, best and brightest students, no. Students are a small part of Harvard, and have always served Harvard's needs. |
Anonymous
An elite school shouldn't have to provide a slowed down math class for remediation. |
Anonymous
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This is common in community colleges.
It is common to offer math basics and English writing basics. You would not expect this at Harvard. |
Anonymous
Yes and poor Asian children of immigrants in NYC also play a lot of soccer. Somewhere. |
Anonymous
A little context. In 1990 I took freshman calc using the Deborah Hughes Hallett preprint at my state flagship. The book hadn’t been published yet. It was referred to as Core Calculus Consortium, or Harvard Consortium. The class was honors and met daily. I still have the spiral bound copy. The concept was, graphing calculators are now commonplace, so we can re-write to reach calculus conceptually even if students have weak symbolic manipulation skills. Remediation may not be explicitly in the blurb above, but it was the reason for the course. The same group of educators went on to propose the Common Core reforms in K-12 over the next decades. Anyway, I was a lazy HS student on to a so-so university but I placed into honors and majored in math. |
Anonymous
No, it is all the schools rushing kids through accelerated programs in the name of being the youngest ever to talk calculus. This is s no way to learn math. |
Anonymous
Hopefully, HS will take note and ensure BS grade inflation will go away. |
Anonymous
We have a ton of MIT grads and some are fine, some aren't - but they are the people who name drop their school more than any other college, so much so that my colleague calls it the M-bomb. I give new grads some room to brag, but sometimes it's like, dude, you're 30. |
Anonymous
Absolutely not. These are students who didn't pass AP Calculus. No one is passing AP Calculus exam (even though it's not a very hard test) and failing an Algebra 2 test prereq for a Precalc class leading into a terminal Calc 1 class. The most obvious reason is that a student who passed AP Calculus and wasnt going further in math would sit on that credit and just not take any math class at college. |
Anonymous
And when DHH was running the Calculus sub-department, she was an advocate of the pedagogical theory that calculus should be taught like a high school class, not like a college class. Undergrad TAs were expected to spoon-feed the homework to the students, instead of being a resource that students could come to with their own questions after attempting the work. |