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3 | Washington Unsparing with the Rod According to a new report by the ACLU and Human Rights Watch, more than 200,000 U.S. schoolchildren were subjected to corporal punishment during the 2006-07 academic year, with disabled students receiving a disproportionate share. In Tennessee, one of 20 states where physical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

PAF: 1. Peer Advising Fellow. 2. A socially conscious upperclassman who donates his or her time to hosting weekly study breaks and offering tame advice to first-years. 3. Probably a better source of academic advice than your official advisor (see Advising).

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dictionary of Harvardisms | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

As a boy, he diverted his lunch money into parts for homemade rockets. But he says he was a mere A-minus student, an "academic black sheep" - at least compared with older brother Gilbert, a straight-A valedictorian who studied physics at Princeton and is now a biochemistry professor at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Steven Chu Win the Fight Over Global Warming? | 8/23/2009 | See Source »

US News and World Report uses seven indicators to determine academic quality including peer assessment, retention, faculty resources, student selectivity, financial resources, graduation rate performance, and alumni giving rate. One factor that is not measured, Morse said, is what students learn. A recent survey by the American Council of Trustees...

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard, Princeton Tie for #1 in US News Ranking | 8/21/2009 | See Source »

The format has its creative advantages. Instead of telling the classic story through the eyes of a the main narrator as in the original Mahabharata, Sreedharan takes the point of view of an heretofore one- dimensional character, Bhima, one of the five Pandava brothers who defeat their cousins, the Kauravas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tweeting the World's Longest Poem | 8/21/2009 | See Source »

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