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To the editors: Re: “Faculty Approves Secondary Fields,” news, Apr. 5. I was genuinely surprised to see the faculty approve secondary fields for Harvard undergraduates. Secondary fields strike at the underlying premise of Harvard students’ education: that they should be students of...
As students in grades three through eight take the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) exams in reading and English this week, Cambridge Public Schools (CPS)-+ officials expressed mixed opinions over the use of standardized tests to gauge student performance in the wake of last month’s SAT grading...
Harvard officials said yesterday that the Higher Education Act renewed by the House of Representatives on Thursday contained provisions that give the federal government excessive influence over colleges. But supporters of the act said that it will rein in tuition hikes and make college more affordable. The legislation would increase...
Yu showed some slides of his work. "Wild grass," he said, pausing for emphasis. "It can be beautiful. It's very modern." Before long someone brought him a box of children's markers and a map, and he went to work sketching in islands of existing rice paddies within the...
What's changing, of course, is India's demographic makeup as the nation's booming economy mints a critical mass of newly affluent consumers. Last year, the average Indian salary surged 14% (18% for IT professionals), the highest wage growth in Asia, according to a study by Hewitt Associates, a...