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...Albert B. Fantini. “Other cities can experiment with one of their many high schools.” Other individuals present, such as Cambridge Public Schools Superintendent Thomas D. Fowler-Finn, called into question the IB’s track record. He cited a public school in Berkeley, Calif. that has recently implemented the program and has seen racial disparities in enrollment. “Their IB program has more white and ‘paid-lunch’ kids,” he said. “At the elementary school level it worked pretty well...
Several of the most widely cited experts on the environmental benefits of biofuels are warning about the environmental costs now that they've recognized the deforestation effect. "The situation is a lot more challenging than a lot of us thought," says University of California, Berkeley, professor Alexander Farrell, whose 2006 Science article calculating the emissions reductions of various ethanols used to be considered the definitive analysis. The experts haven't given up on biofuels; they're calling for better biofuels that won't trigger massive carbon releases by displacing wildland. Robert Watson, the top scientist at the U.K.'s Department...
...Reference volumes provided by the college, which are printed on a yearly basis, can quickly become obsolete, Arnold added. “I pick a lot of my courses online, and I believe a lot of students are doing the same thing,” he said. Seidel, a Berkeley graduate who ran for the council partially on an environmentalist platform, mentioned at Monday’s meeting that the waste of natural resources is not limited to simply the printing process. “There’s a lot of petrochemicals... that go into distributing these books...
Stephen D. Sugarman, a professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, said if the case is upheld in court, some home-schoolers may run into trouble. "Local school districts have their own autonomy and could sue people," he said. "Somebody could start bureaucratically making it more difficult for home-schoolers...
...forthcoming paper in the China Quarterly, Professor Kevin O'Brien of the University of California, Berkeley, describes how repression can often backfire and actually make activists more respected by their communities. If that happened in China, its rural population could be further radicalized. It was Mao Zedong who famously said a "single spark can light a prairie fire." Men like He may not know it, but they are holding burning brands in their hands...