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...line, she places an index finger on a pad about the size of a car's garage opener. Her name, and sometimes an image of her face, appears on a computer screen in front of the cashier. Kids with dirty or sweaty fingers are allowed to use their ID card, as are students who can't have an image taken of them because of religious or cultural issues. Allen says the system has helped add at least 10 minutes to lunch periods that in some schools last just 20 minutes. The technology hasn't necessarily saved money: the number...
Each year education policymakers and administrators wait anxiously for the results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), otherwise known as The Nation's Report Card. The anxiety is highest over how American students will perform in reading and math, reported every two years. These subjects are the focus for most of the testing required under the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the controversial legislation currently under review by Congress. Is the enormous attention being paid to reading and math - often to the detriment of other subjects - paying dividends? The NAEP results released this morning provide...
...Registrar’s Office, lotteries are currently the domain of individual professors, who have the freedom to inform their students of results at any time. To solve the problem of late lotteries, the College should mandate that all lotteries end by 5 p.m. on the Thursday before Study Card day, at least 24 hours before study cards are due. That would give students enough time to see their advisers, shop additional courses, and make informed decisions...
...facts, and the unique combinations of ISBNs on reading lists are intellectual property—but of professors. While the Faculty can assert intellectual property rights over reading lists, the Coop cannot. Moreover, the Coop, as a cooperative, exists to serve the student community (everyone with a Coop card technically owns part of the cooperative), and jealously guarding ISBNs seems contrary to its shareholders’ interests. Students should be able to take down ISBNs freely without Coop employees nervously pacing around them...
...place overall at the Princeton Women’s Invitational. The Crimson, which started yesterday tied for third with Yale with 315 strokes, shot a combined 632 in two rounds, 18 shots more than first-place Princeton and seven shots behind second-place Columbia. Georgetown also finished third after carding the lowest round of Day 2 with a 312. Senior Jessica Hazlett, who tied for second place with a combined score of 152, led Harvard’s five competing golfers. Her excellent play provided a silver lining to the overall mood of frustration among the members of the team...