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...former Currier House business tutor, Christopher C. Kim ’99, died suddenly on February 11, at the age of 32. Kim was a passionate advocate for education, which eventually led him to the administration of a five-year-old Washington, D.C. public charter school. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
Last year, Kim moved to Washington, D.C., where he served as the Director of Planning, Policy, and Finance at the E.L. Haynes Public Charter School. He and the school’s founder, Jennifer C. Niles, met when she taught at Phillips Academy, where Kim attended high school. The two felt such a strong professional affinity that Niles held a position open for him when she opened the charter school, said Emmeline K. Owyang ’93, one of Kim’s sisters...
...hoped, basketball nonetheless paved the way for Duncan’s later career. In 1981, John Rogers Jr., CEO of Ariel Capital Management and a former teammate of Duncan’s in a Chicago three-on-three basketball league, offered Duncan a job managing Ariel Community Academy, a charter school funded by the business. From there, Duncan went on to manage the Chicago city parks. He was eventually tapped to run CPS by Paul G. Vallas, then-CEO of the school system...
...week before the 100th anniversary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, students from across the University gathered to re-charter the Harvard chapter of the historic organization last night. In front of nearly 75 attendees, HLS student James A. Nortey addressed the lack of social justice and civil rights initiatives on campus. “This is Harvard University. How can there not be an NAACP?” Nortey asked. The organization’s current on-campus absence may be part of a larger statewide trend. Once known for bitter anti-discrimination battles...
...Having provided his misleading “context,” Kennedy finally returns to the present day. In his view, Hamas is not the organization whose charter calls for Jews to be killed and rejects “so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences.” No—it is just a tragically misunderstood bunch, desperately seeking a way to accept a two-state solution and “save face...