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Citizens of Cambridge are going to see the value of a high school diploma rise dramatically in the next few years. Cities and towns across the commonwealth are making unprecedented commitments to public schools, and Cambridge is no exception. Taxpayers ought to look to the future and bite the bullet now. An investment in CRLS now will pay off many times over down the road...
After the war, Chayes enrolled in HLS, where he served as president of the Harvard Law Review and won the Fay Diploma, an award given to the student with the highest overall average in three years of study...
...significant portion of students fail, the dropout rate will skyrocket, and it will be disproportionately students from poorer districts who need a solid secondary education the most. Many students who come to school, pass their classes and fulfill graduation requirements will leave without a diploma, which is a prerequisite to advancement in today's technology-driven economy. There must be some less painful way to improve educational standards in Massachusetts...
...state must adopt a more fair and realistic approach to MCAS. Retaining the test as an index of school and individual performance rather than a graduation requirement would give schools a similar incentive to improve standards without unduly punishing the students. Alternatively, giving another type of diploma to students who receive a certain score on the test--a system similar to the Regents exams in New York--would help to indicate and reward achievement...
...value of honors is highest on commencement day when the whole family is cooing over the diploma, and decays exponentially thereafter, with only what is in your head to represent substantially what you got here," he writes in an e-mail message...