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...children don't get a good education is that education is not stressed at home. I am a teacher in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the country, and the students have after-school programs and Saturday academy and even go to school during Christmas vacation yet remain way behind their suburban counterparts. Most of the parents would rather their kids be street smart than book smart. Arne Duncan cites schools that have longer hours as being more successful, yet there are plenty that aren't. If Duncan wants so badly for poorer kids to improve, let them...
...said. “She had this intensity that she came out with—she just wanted to leave it all out on the field. Overall, she’s just been a force. She always leads by example and she has such a presence at bat and behind the plate.”Bock got the action going at the top of the second by blasting the day’s only homer—the fourth of her season and 11th of her career—to right-center to give the Crimson a 1-0 lead...
...Yale” in the middle.“The biggest kick was that he sent it with a giant paper clip,” says Ian Anderson, the office’s file room director—perhaps the most important cog in the well-oiled machine behind Harvard Admissions. “I think he ended up going to Yale.”The Admissions Office, where 29,112 hopeful students sent their painstakingly crafted essays, letters, and applications to be reviewed this year, is the most exclusive in the country. Behind this machine are 70 people?...
...NextGen” includes the mailing list service, an updated web hosting service for students and clubs, and more services that, according to former HCS president Grant W. Dasher ’09, will be announced in the coming weeks. Dasher said that the impetus behind “HCS-NextGen” was a combination of antiquated technology, mailing list slowdowns, and limited storage space. “We had capacity problems in our existing systems. We were running out of storage space for our mail archives. We were having slowdowns that were happening on high traffic days like...
...Such choices get to the real truth behind the cold hard numbers of health-care reform. Every one of them is a political calculation, one that pits one constituency against another. Can lawmakers really balance the books on health-care reform? "You can do it," says former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, a leading voice in the health-care-reform effort. "It's just a matter of how much pain you want to endure...