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...concrete recommendations to remedy the long-debated “middle school issue” in the city by the October deadline set by the school committee. Young, who began working for the district on July 6, had agreed to present to the committee his plan to resolve the concern over the quality of the education that 6th-8th grade students receive in K-8 schools, an environment some claim is not specifically—and therefore poorly—designed for the needs of early adolescence. Young told the Boston Globe that he will delay making specific recommendations?...
...don’t see the harm in selling them to us at the normal prices they would get it for. In terms of the culture, DHA sweaters are important, but it’s understandable if cuts have to be made.” Another recent athletic concern pertained to the department’s policies regarding undergraduate students and their gym memberships. The misconception involved the idea that undergraduates needed to reactivate their gym memberships online to continue having free access to the university’s gyms and classes. “There are no fees...
Nearly everyone has at some point in his or her life experienced hunger. I’m not referring to genuine, involuntary starvation—a real concern in many parts of the world—but rather something along the lines of the pre-Sunday brunch munchies, when an unpleasantly grumbling stomach signals anticipation for that bite of Veritaffles at noon...
Much of the brouhaha could have been avoided if 1) there were other news last week, and 2) Secretary of Education Arne Duncan had been a bit more artful in his presentation of the speech's mission. "My concern is the clumsy way in which the Department of Education marketed this and the clumsy and unimpressive instructional materials that they provided," says Rick Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank...
...case - even if the diplomatic nuclear brief just got a bit more complicated - and Stephen Bosworth, Obama's special envoy to the North, was purposefully bland in reacting to the HEU announcement from Pyongyang. "Obviously, anything the North is doing in the area of nuclear development is of concern to us," he said after meetings in Beijing. Coincidentally - or not - the Deputy Foreign Minister of North Korea has just returned from his own meetings in Beijing. A leading North Korea watcher in Seoul, Cheong Seong Chang, a senior fellow at the Sejong Institute, believes the groundwork is being...