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Dates: during 2000-2009
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When one tour group approached, led by an admissions office student tourguide, a neo dressed in all black explained that no picture-taking was allowed, because Ben Affleck was filming in the Square, and because President Obama would be in town soon. “We can’t have any clumping here,” the neo told the crowd...

Author: By Zoe A.Y. Weinberg | Title: Hasty Pudding Shields John Harvard from Dangerous Tourists | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

While 62 percent of White 7th graders in the district were proficient or advanced in math, only 18 percent of Black students were, and while 79 percent of White 7th graders were proficient or advanced in English Language Arts, only 44 percent of Black students met or exceeded standards...

Author: By Rediet T. Abebe and Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Cambridge School Test Scores Below Target | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

Additionally, the achievement gap—a nationally-seen disparity in the test scores of white and minority students—was particularly salient in the results. Overall, the composite performance index in both subjects for White and Asian students was actually higher than the state average, but Black, Hispanic, and low income students all fell far below the state average...

Author: By Rediet T. Abebe and Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Cambridge School Test Scores Below Target | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

...went on to earn a Ph.D. from UCLA and become an English professor. But in 2006, at age 43, a personal crisis sent her back to her Mennonite roots in Fresno, Calif. Janzen has written a new book about her unusual journey, Mennonite in a Little Black Dress (Henry Holt). TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs reached Janzen in Holland, Mich., where she is an English professor at Hope College. (Read "How Did Sarah Palin Write Her Memoir So Fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rhoda Janzen: From Modern to Mennonite | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

...Black and White will have plenty of time to tune up for the spring season, with just a few weeks of fall competition left, culminating with the Foot of the Charles...

Author: By B. marjorie Gullick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Crews Find Varying Degrees of Success on Charles | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

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