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However, the most troubling aspect of the Cleveland voucher experiment has nothing to do with test scores and everything to do with the danger that vouchers could undermine the role that public schools have played in American life. Public schools have long held the promise of being America's great...
Unlike the ferociously certain Forstmann, I end up in the mushy middle. I don't want to keep any kid from getting out of a bad school now, but I am worried that we won't be able to put Humpty Dumpty back together again if we try the wrong...
Though the Annex was considered a tentative experiment when it was first founded, in the 1880s Agassiz pushed for a formal relationship with Harvard.
A committee of "seven ladies," which included Elizabeth Cary Agassiz and Alice Mary Longfellow, advertised "Private Collegiate Instruction for Women" in 1879, responding to the need for advanced educational opportunities for female students. This "experiment," known familiarly as the Harvard Annex, became a chartered Institution, Radcliffe College, in 1894.
Crista Martin, HDS publications and communications coordinator, says it's important to experiment.