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...about 75 percent of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, compared to the district average of about 45 percent. At both the Community Charter School of Cambridge and Prospect Hill Academy, the number is about 50 percent. Riordan said that mandating these population quotas would hurt efforts to establish schools with balanced populations. “You can imagine that if there were a new charter school with 80 percent of students in need, not that many students of privilege would apply to that school,” he said, adding that the best model would be to have...
...that sense, the greatest strength of science is also its greatest weakness. Science advances through perpetual disagreement and revision; scientists establish rigorous methods and standards to work toward the achievement of truth, and never seek to predict outcomes unconditionally. These practices allow for the exhilaration of unexpected discoveries. But it comes with a caveat: When the scientific method is turned inward to examine its own premises, it becomes destabilized. An ideological breach opens, in which, theoretically, a God or ethics could exist...
...alignment process is the foundation for building those performance-based, leader-player relationships that characterize the high-performance teams. A team alignment is an opportunity for collective deep-think and re-evaluation and for the leader and his or her team to establish the blueprint for high performance. In Michaels' case, his team spent two intensive days in heated discussions about what they needed to accomplish, who was responsible for what and who had the authority to make which decisions. They called one another out on unacceptable interpersonal behavior: failure to share information, lack of follow-through, riding roughshod over...
...hits the road this weekend, the Harvard women’s basketball team has the chance to pick up the 500th win in the 32-year history of the program. The main goal on its mind, though, is all about the here and now: the Crimson wants to re-establish its status as the team to beat in the Ivy League.Harvard (8-8, 0-1 Ivy) will look to shake off a Jan. 10 loss in its home opener to perennial rival Dartmouth when it continues conference play at Penn (3-12, 0-1) and Princeton...
...earlier in the season.“I have to imagine it’s a game-time decision, but I would say it’s looking optimistic,” Pusar said. Coming off of a loss against St. Joseph’s, Penn will look to establish its balanced attack this weekend against Harvard. Leading the Quakers is sophomore Tyler Bernardini, a 6’6 forward, who had two double-doubles in the last three games, along with a 23-point showing against La Salle.“We really need to focus on Bernardini...