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...Many students, as we well know, make it out of these extraordinary environments??some earlier, thanks to scholarships, to prep schools, or elite summer programs and participation in organizations such as Upward Bound and MESA, and some later, through admission to top colleges, including Harvard. We applaud Harvard for offering unprecedented financial support to low-income students, helping many first-generation college students, including those from at-risk communities. However, as evidenced by significant research and a recent article in the Boston Globe, the inclination to believe that providing access and financial assistance is enough is both wrong...
...they understand his art.Born in Los Angeles in 1970 and currently based in New York, Biggers has exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, including the Whitney and the Tate Modern. This semester, he teaches two Visual and Environmental Studies classes as a visiting professor: “Objects and Environments?? and “Spatial Poetics.” In addition, as the Marshall S. Cogan Visiting Artist in the Office for the Arts public art program, Biggers is conducting research for a temporary installation on the Harvard campus next semester. The project, he says...
...individual schools and states to meet rising costs of education in a time when exponentially more students are being diagnosed with special needs.Palin promised that a McCain administration would finally provide the funding necessary for the government to ensure such students are always placed in appropriate, specialized learning environments??like private schools—entirely free of charge to parents. Parents who are tired of their children receiving inadequate educations have, understandably, enthusiastically supported Palin’s plan. Teachers unions and school districts, however, have challenged the initiative, asserting that it will support private education...
Committee member Nancy Walser, however, reminded those present that Standing Stone’s services should be considered merely preventative and not a response to any catastrophe, which would require more dire measures. She noted that surveys have shown that CPS students overwhelmingly feel safe in their academic environments??especially at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School, which is located just blocks from Harvard...
...slew of legislation in the past few years banning smoking from the workplace. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has classified secondhand smoke as a “potential occupational carcinogen” and has recommended that employers minimize occupational exposure in “all non-industrial work environments?? by using “all available preventive measures.” While much attention and legislation has been targeted at employees in corporate offices and retail shops, workers in restaurants and bars have been woefully ignored...
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