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...Edison's reforms have stuck. Blakney was enthusiastic about the company's innovations last fall, but her use of the chants and cheers waned over the months, and by midyear the extra hours she was spending out of the classroom for training seemed excessive. "I'd rather be with my kids," she says. But Edison's mandated monthly testing of her students has become Blakney's favorite new instructional tool, because it allows her to efficiently track her class's learning. Whipping out her laptop, she shows a visitor the scores her students have achieved and how they stack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Grading The Philadelphia Experiment | 6/23/2003 | See Source »

...inspired feminists and fathers and editorial columnists and, according to a profile in The New York Times, is considered a motivation for the 1994 Gender Equity in Education Act, which banned classroom gender discrimination...

Author: By Lauren R. Dorgan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Trailblazer Takes Off | 6/6/2003 | See Source »

Light and others say students are taught leadership and teamwork skills in their extracurricular activities—qualities that are often hard to exercise in a classroom setting...

Author: By Nalina Sombuntham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Under the Big Tent | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

...Some of the happiest students that I’ve had here at Harvard have used their extracurricular activities as an opportunity to connect what they do outside the classroom with things they are learning inside the classroom,” he says...

Author: By Nalina Sombuntham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Under the Big Tent | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

...option involves keeping the Law School on its current site, but expanding on this land by using student dorms for classroom and student space and moving the dorms across the river...

Author: By Lauren A.E. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University Inches Toward Allston Decision | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

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