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...helped me climb one mountain. It also prepares me and thousands of others to climb the mountains ahead. We will.”An ongoing evaluation of the program conducted by Policy Studies Associates, a research firm in Washington D.C., demonstrates that Citizen Schools participants have higher in attendance rates, lower rates of suspension, and higher promotion rates compared with a matched group of peers at Boston public schools, according to the program’s Web site.The study also showed that 72 percent of eighth graders who completed the program chose to attend top-tier high schools, versus...
...Nehamas is one of the typically 4,000 hopeful students who send in applications for Harvard’s Early Action program, which allows students to apply early without obliging them to attend. Disadvantaged students tend to be underrepresented in the Early Action pool in favor of students who are white, wealthy, and well connected. In other words, students like Nehamas...
...third through eighth graders last spring. Montana officials, by contrast, argue that their tardy score reporting was in fact planned. Regardless, the delays means that students in both states are unable to know officially whether they are eligible for free tutoring or to transfer to another school if they attend a failing school, as mandated under the reform law. While a dozen states have experienced delays this year in getting their scores pulled together, none were as far behind as the bureaucrats in the Land of Lincoln and Big Sky Country...
Thirty-five of the 36 confirmed attendees at the biennial conference—which brings together newly elected Congressional members to learn about effective lawmaking and leadership—are Democrats. The lone Republican planning to attend is Vernon “Vern” Buchanan of Florida, who picked up Katherine Harris’ vacated House seat, according to the Institute of Politics (IOP) list of participants...
...about power, it’s about money, and for Harvard, money is power....[Charlesview residents] don’t have money. They don’t have power. They don’t have a voice,” said Kelly L. Lee ’07, who attended the protest.Ricardo Sanchez, a board member of the Charlesview Residents’ Organization, criticized Rabbi Abraham Halbfinger, chair of the Board of Directors, who told The Crimson last week that Charlesview residents “were very much in favor” of the land swap...