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Pfister says that the Ad Board’s lack of transparency will be addressed by the Faculty Review Committee. “We should aim to make the process clear,” he says. “I think there is a little bit of a sense of it being cloak and dagger—how everything happens within that room, and it’s all bad. That’s probably not the case...
...felt that there was a need that could be served that was not being served by the major social networks,” says Herskovitz of Myspace and Facebook. The aim of the project is to create a community around the issues the show has tried to address—little things like “what it means to try to be a person,” he says...
...similar idea is someday applied in high and junior high schools. That being said, the new proposal still unfortunately encourages principles to be guided by state educational standards. Adhering to these standards forces teachers to “teach to the test” and undermines the pedagogical aims of elementary education. In the same way that the state does not tell universities what to teach, or hold them accountable to strict standards, primary education, even in public schools, should cede more control to teachers, principals, parents, and communities. Rather than focusing on students achievement as measured on the MCAS...
...scientists and engineers have to know a little more broadly about public policy issues,” he said. “I feel it is a very appropriate thing for Harvard to do.” Faust said Harvard is committed to expanding opportunities in engineering with an aim toward making a school that trains “renaissance engineers,” rather than attempting to mimic the school at the other end of Mass. Ave. “We will never have the size engineering school that MIT does,” Faust said...
...pulsing bass still make up a majority of the album, an acoustic track and a few down-tempo songs show an unexpected but welcome maturity. Granted, they haven’t fully dispensed with their energetic-indie-pop sheen, but that probably wasn’t their aim. If you can get past Luke Lalonde’s sometimes yelpy vocals, the album will have you smiling and nodding your head. “Red, Yellow & Blue” doesn’t exactly jump out of the gates, but it definitely hits its stride early. The title track...