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...were two or more years behind their peers in accumulating credits toward graduation. "We had a hunch that these overage, undercredited kids were the bulk of the dropouts," says Leah Hamilton, executive director of the city's Office of Multiple Pathways to Graduation. That turned out to be more correct than anyone had imagined: 93% of dropouts had a history of being overage and undercredited. In fact, once students fell into this category, they had just a 19% chance of finishing high school or getting a graduate equivalency diploma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stopping the Dropout Exodus | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

...time-travel antics. “Our conductor tends to get shot in every performance,” says Weinbloom. “In the case of this concert, someone will be killed early on in the program, and the orchestra will have to go back in time to correct it.” The orchestra normally performs in the intimate setting of Lowell Lecture Hall, but for this tenth-anniversary concert, Pops will perform to a larger audience in Sanders Theatre. Sanders Theater, usually home to the tuxedo-clad players of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, will get a good...

Author: By Benjamin C. Burns, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pop Music for Time Travelers | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...prepared statement, Jones said she had “misled the Institute about my academic credentials” in applying for her first job at MIT in 1979, and “did not have the courage to correct my resume when I applied for my current job or at any time since...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MIT Dean Resigns in Scandal | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

...prepared statement, Jones said she had "misled the Institute about my academic credentials" in applying for her first job at the school in 1979, and "did not have the courage to correct my resume when I applied for my current job or at any time since." She was appointed to lead the admissions office...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MIT Admissions Dean Resigns; Admits Misleading School on Credentials | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

...prepared statement, Jones said she had “misled the Institute about my academic credentials” in applying for her first job at MIT in 1979, and “did not have the courage to correct my resume when I applied for my current job or at any time since...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MIT Admissions Dean Resigns After Fake Degrees Come to Light | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

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