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• 17 Sep 08
  

  Some prominent institutions, such as Columbia University or the University of Chicago, are famous for what they require of all undergraduates. Brown University has for the last 40 years been much loved in some circles, and disdained in others, for what it

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  • Brown was potentially playing a key role in the way it is calling on every department to consider its general education role and not just its role in training majors.
  • two and a half pages and addressed to students, urging them to do specific things that the curriculum doesn’t force on them (The statement, already sent to new students, is at the end of the plan).
  • In endorsing the e-portfolio idea, the Brown plan explicitly considers and rejects the alternative way to judge progress of undergraduates — the use of standardized tests such as the Collegiate Learning Assessment that have been endorsed as a key part of assessment by the Spellings Commission and others. “Such tests not only run counter to Brown’s educational philosophy, they also fail to capture the full range of our students’ educational experiences,”

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• 15 Sep 08
  

  Greg Peterson

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