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Last night the Cambridge Public Schools (CPS) Committee unanimously approved a motion to contract a security consulting firm to assess and improve the quality of CPS’ current security provisions...
...News has been grading colleges and universities since 1983, and while the magazine mostly uses hard data, the largest single component of the rankings - 25% of a school's overall score - comes from a survey that asks presidents, provosts and admissions directors to assess peer institutions. The reputational rating is "a very legitimate tool for getting at a certain level of knowledge about colleges," says U.S. News executive editor Brian Kelly. "Who better to ask to evaluate colleges than top college administrators...
...Wikipedia represents all that is great and all that is dangerous about the Internet,” Cohen said, “It is incredibly powerful and readily available, and yet can mislead the unwary and spread disinformation. One hopes that a good undergraduate education will enable students to assess what they are reading...
...hall hours, the committee entertained the idea of instituting a “flexible” points meal plan, which would allow undergraduates to eat in participating campus restaurants as well as dining halls. This plan was recommended by a consulting firm hired in the spring of 2006 to assess HUDS’ efficiency. According to the report, the committee decided against the flexible plan because it would disrupt the tradition of House dining, which committee members said serves as the foundation of House life. “When we were examining the dining hall issue, we considered maintaining House...
Rice and other foreign ministers plan to meet in Beijing in two months to assess whether both sides have lived up to their initial promises. If they have, Rice says she will meet face to face with her North Korean counterpart for the first time during Bush's presidency. Those meetings could set the stage for historic discussions about normalizing relations between two implacable enemies. The Administration's rhetoric about seeking a sweeping solution to the North Korean threat--such as regime change in Pyongyang--has faded. Instead, the U.S. seems willing to pursue a more modest strategy: bargaining away...