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...Greimann had sailed in the same boat.“I was pleased with how I sailed considering we’d only been in a boat together one other time,” she said.FERRARONE TROPHY @ YALEThe lone road trip for Harvard had the No. 4 co-ed team traveling to New Haven for a 12-team regatta. The Crimson’s three boats at the event helped Harvard to a third-place finish behind Tufts and host Yale. Each school sailed 12 races, with the Crimson finishing at 7-5, while the Bulldogs and Jumbos earned records...
Some American high schools phased out vocational ed decades ago, when it was better known as shop class and was blamed for segregating--unintentionally or not--poor and minority students into low-paying careers. In his proposed budget this year, President Bush would eliminate all federal spending on vocational ed to pay for his No Child Left Behind high school initiatives, which are geared toward a precollege curriculum. But in his state budget this year Schwarzenegger is asking for $50 million in new funds for high school vocational-ed programs. Last year he pushed through $20 million in new funds...
Today vocational ed--or career tech, as it's commonly called--more often involves a computer mouse than a lathe. More than 15 million middle and high school and community-college students are enrolled, up 58% since 2000, in programs like biotechnology and computer networking. According to a 1998 University of Michigan study, high-risk students are eight to 10 times less likely to drop out if they enter a career-tech program. And the notion that career tech is useful only for the student with no college plans is outdated; students who have taken career tech enter college...
Three weeks ago an op-ed piece in The Los Angeles Times urged Harvard to adopt a shocking new proposal: make the College absolutely free. That’s right—no tuition, no room rent, and no board for all students. Despite the suggestion’s seemingly radical nature, we quantitatively can and qualitatively should pursue this policy...
Peter Hong, author of the op-ed, estimated the cost of making Harvard College “on the house” at about $280 million a year, an increase of $190 million in financial aid. That number represents less than a one percent increase in the endowment payout. Though critics have pointed out that most funds have restricted use, many living donors are likely to change their conditions if they consider the cause compelling. Even if this policy did not push people to donate more, which is highly unlikely, the costs in the first years would be covered...