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While 62 percent of White 7th graders in the district were proficient or advanced in math, only 18 percent of Black students were, and while 79 percent of White 7th graders were proficient or advanced in English Language Arts, only 44 percent of Black students met or exceeded standards...

Author: By Rediet T. Abebe and Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Cambridge School Test Scores Below Target | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

...Wednesday, October 7th, at a Harvard Women in Business Event, two impeccably dressed blondes spoke to a crowd of around 250 Harvard students packed into the seats of Emerson 105. 10 hours earlier, in that very same room, the seats were similarly full, as students listened to a lecture on the intricacies of market demand. This night, though, Alexandra Wilkis Wilson ’99 and Alexis M. Maybank ’97 discussed a different sort of financial asset...

Author: By Kylie S. Gleason, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Guilt-Free Shopping | 10/15/2009 | See Source »

Another professor whose course flier declares, "Wake up, it's the 7th century!" (for History 1040: "The Fall of the Roman Empire") is also teaching in the ancient Core. Though this Historical Study B class doesn't double-count toward Gen Ed, about 20 people couldn't get in, and upperclassmen were flooding the hallways to such an extent that one lone freshman girl on the window-sill had to ask, "Can freshmen take this...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi | Title: Cores Flowing Out the Doors | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

KUTCH, India — In the rural region of Kutch in Northwest India, 140 kids—preschoolers through 7th graders—travel to Sadhu Vaswani School six days a week to learn math, science, social studies, English, Gujarati, Hindi, and basic computer skills. The school faces daunting challenges as it attempts to educate students from 14 regional villages, some more than 50 kilometers away, with only one school bus to provide transportation over these long distances. Most of the villages where students live did not have electricity until a few years ago, and most children...

Author: By Ravi N. Mulani | Title: Time for School | 7/23/2009 | See Source »

...7th century, Hussein and a band of fewer than 100 people, including women and children, took on the mighty Umayyad dynasty in Karbala, an ancient city in Mesopotamia now in modern-day Iraq. They knew they would be massacred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Iran, One Woman's Death May Have Many Consequences | 6/21/2009 | See Source »

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