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From: Jack P. Starrantino
'Evening,
Thanks for the
article (Borjas strikes again! Shows Foreign TAs hurt American
undergrads). I wasn't aware anyone was actually
looking at this.
I got to see it for myself when I was a grad student. I
taught an 8AM lab section during the winter semester, and Pittsburgh PA
winters are not fun. At the start of the semester there were a lot of empty
seats, but as time went on I had more and more kids. Finally, I came in one
morning and found that not only were all the lab benches full, but so were
the window sills.
It was cold, dark, early, and Monday; and I had a full
lab.
So I asked what was going on. It took a while, but finally the kids
admitted that they were having problems understanding the TAs in the other
sections and were having trouble on the quizzes. - jps
January 21, 2001
