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...mile and point production in the throws.”Harvard won two of the day’s 16 events—the wins coming at the beginning and end of the meet with a few key seconds and thirds along the way.Green and senior Sean Barrett finished 1-2 in the mile, each recording his best time of the season.Green’s mark of 4:13.60 qualifies him for the IC4A Championships at the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston, a meet that he also qualified for last week with a 1:53.38 showing...
...season-best time of 1:53.38 in the 800 meters made the cut, while Galebach and junior Ryan Hafer, who beat his personal best by eight seconds, achieved qualifying times in the 3,000. Competing in the 5K at BU, freshman Ben Gutierrez and seniors Sean Barrett and Peter Mullen’s times also hit the mark. “That’s the most people that we’ve ever had qualify from a distance perspective in a very long time, which is really good,” Mullen said...
...John Barrett, the principal of Farmington High School, is a fervent disciple of the theories espoused in Thomas Friedman's book, The World Is Flat, about vanishing U.S. economic supremacy on the now-level global playing field, and he worries that complacent Americans are perilously close to sliding off the edge. He distributed copies of the book to teachers last spring and made it the sole topic for discussion at the first faculty meeting this fall. To build a less xenophobic student body, students are served a steady diet of internationally focused programs and projects...
...Sievert says many of the insights they're gathering extracurricularly while researching mock resolutions inform the class discussions, adding intellectual spice to the sessions she flavors with student-produced Power Point presentations and documentary screenings, as well as reading assignments from foreign affairs journals and memoirs of genocide survivors. Barrett required students to attend an on-campus debate on the Arab-Israeli conflict he organized between a Muslim cleric and a Jewish rabbi. In another assembly, Pakistani and Indian students explained the sources of ethnic tensions in the Kashmir region, and plans are under way for Farmington's exchange students...
...Although the school's college placement record is impressive-77% of last year's senior class enrolled in four-year colleges- Barrett says the Friedman book's admonitions led to the decision this fall to "kick up the level of rigor" in the curriculum even more. "It becomes more apparent the deeper you get into the book that what we used to consider third world countries are now outdistancing us in terms of research and, more than anything, work ethic," he says. "I want our kids to realize they're not just competing with the kid next to them...