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...system. “MCAS is like an autopsy; by the time you get the scores back, the kids have already completed a whole other half year of school in another grade,” Walser said. “It’s really way too late to affect the kind of budgetary shifts that you might want to make or shifts in curriculum that you might want to make to help those kids.” Walser also said that she was worried about the pressure that testing has on schools...
...know Frankie was very close to his mother,” Johannessen says. “If his mother was having a tough time in Puerto Rico, we would know. That would affect...
...recent gift supporting Islamic studies at Harvard suggest that this is indeed where we live. The headline of a recent article in the Crimson Magazine reads “No Strings Attached? A generous prince left Harvard a hefty sum. But might his ties to the Arab world affect this gift?” The implication is that by accepting a gift for Islamic studies, Harvard may become beholden to the wrong sorts of people—perhaps even somehow furthering the cause of terrorism. The Harvard Salient, which is funded by the “conservative” lobby...
...heard on many occasions admissions officers talking about students from certain high schools in their recruiting areas that tend to do well at their colleges. If students are not as successful from a high school, it may affect the admission and or recruiting process for students from those high schools,” Hawkins says, adding that it would take a pattern of poorly-prepared students—not just one or two—to affect admissions decisions about students from a school...
...secondary fields might be offered in neuroscience, developmental psychology, social psychology, and other areas. Knafel Professor of Music Thomas F. Kelly said the Music department is considering possible secondary fields in music performance, analysis, composition, and jazz. It is difficult to predict how the implementation of secondary fields will affect the overall patterns of student concentration choice, said Putnam Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology David A. Haig, an EPC member. ”I think this will encourage students to try some of the smaller concentrations, knowing that they can take a secondary field in economics...