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...bright, airy reception area are six advocate-counselors, or ACs. Each counsels 25 or so kids, whom they greet individually, often with elaborate, personalized handshakes or fist pounds. These close relationships are cemented by daily meetings and twice-weekly group sessions. When any of the school's 150 students fail to show up in the morning, the AC makes a phone call to find out why. Freddie Perez, 17, compares this with the check-in procedure at the big high school he used to attend: "I'd swipe my ID at the beginning of school and then go back...
...transfer schools and YABCS over the remaining 2 1/2 years of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration. Replicating successful programs is always tricky, but in this case there's a peculiar obstacle. Under state- and federal-accountability rules, schools full of students who don't graduate on time are labeled failing. By that definition, YABCS and transfer schools fail no matter how brilliant a job they are doing. "It's hard to get partners to invest and hard to attract strong leaders when the school is labeled failing," says Hamilton...
...deficiencies in our military are directly attributable to the press and Congress. The press has kept up a drumbeat of negative, antimilitary coverage, and Congress has acted as a willing accomplice. Both strive to undermine this country's ability to defend itself and are determined to see the U.S. fail. Rodney Dahl, Bend, Oregon...
Suchde has an elegant style, gliding from corner to corner with seemingly little effort, only to unleash powerful shots with the flick of a wrist. His opponents quiver: most fail to take more than a few meaningless points off him, let alone an entire game or match...
Most concentrations at the College only grant one or two pass-fail concentration credits, with few exceptions. This allows little opportunity for academic exploration, despite the advantages it would bring. The ability—and desire—to pursue studies in unknown or challenging areas is fundamental to creating the broad and inquisitive perspective necessary for genuine scholarship. Indeed, this is the goal of a liberal arts education, “an education conducted in a spirit of free inquiry undertaken without concern for topical relevance or vocational utility,” as the Task Force on General Education...