Students were assigned a preclass assignment before the topic was introduced in class.
In Spring 2011, students were assigned an initial reading assignment on phylogenies from the textbook required for the course.
For the assignment, physical therapy students were assigned one case scenario and one nutrition student to interview individually.
Throughout the semester students were assigned to midterm and final exams, group projects, laboratory reports, term papers and assignments to appraise their performance.
In other districts, nearly all failing students were assigned to summer school.
Last year, the department said that 127,000 high school students were assigned to summer school.
This year 48 percent of all students were assigned to their first-choice high school.
As business majors at George Washington, Michael Goldman and four other students were assigned to help a local Salvadoran restaurant.
All the students were assigned Harvard undergraduates as mentors, and Mohammed Rezallah, or Mo, a sophomore, was Chynah's mentor.
This past March, Yaroslav's graduate students were assigned "Thinking the Twentieth Century," "Israel: An Alternative," and "Past Imperfect".
The experiment was relatively simple: a group of students were assigned to be either prisoners or guards in a makeshift prison.
