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...your President’s Day hat and brush up on your knowledge of American history with a visit to the archives of No. 35, John F. Kennedy ’40. Admission is $8 for students from February 13-21 in honor of the holiday if you print a coupon off their Web site, www.jfklibrary.org...
...additional one billion dollars to the National Institutes of Health, constituting a 3.2 percent increase, the largest such increase in eight years. The National Science Foundation, likewise, will see an eight percent growth in the size its budget under Obama’s proposal. These changes will likely make American education available to an even wider group of students, and they therefore deserve praise...
Although the NIH and NSF could always use additional funds, and while we laud the president’s ongoing crusade to expand the availability of higher education to low-income students, we reiterate our belief that fundamental reform is needed to rectify the unforgivably inadequacies of American education. Such reforms include expanding charter schools in order to encourage innovation, instituting merit-based pay for teachers in order to incentivize excellence, and raising teacher salaries to attract the best-qualified candidates to the teaching profession. The president’s Race to the Top program, which provides monetary incentives...
...president’s emphasis on education in the face of economic adversity is the correct approach. Strong schools are integral to a strong workforce and a strong economy, for education is a most potent mechanism for equipping American workers to compete in a global economy. We remain optimistic about actions at both the federal and state level that demonstrate our elected officials’ understanding of the primacy of education. Massachusetts, for example, recently passed a bill doubling the number of charter schools and expanding the powers of superintendents to overhaul failing schools. Even in the face of soaring...
...offer students much in terms of party spaces. Co-eds have long been looking for an ample venue that isn’t the Co-op or the Phoenix to host events; and they seem to have found one this year. Oberon, the theatrical club space of the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.), is slowly becoming the hot new space on campus to plan an all-night affair...