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...drafting designs to present at the City-Wide Design Showcase at GSD on Monday. ON THE RIGHT TRACK Schanfield says that Citizen Schools focuses on the middle school age group because it is a critical time during a child’s educational life, despite being largely neglected in favor of enrichment programs for older and younger students.“If kids get on the right trajectory to success in middle school, they will do better in high school,” she explains.In the Boston public school system, eighth graders can choose to apply to high schools outside...
...Monday night, the Cambridge City Council and Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 gave a long-awaited nudge to the Cambridge Licensing Commission (CLC) in favor of loosening its Puritanical rules. For the past two decades, the CLC and its ally-in-arms, the Harvard Square Defense Fund (HSDF), have implemented draconian policies toward restaurants’ closing hours and their ability to serve liquor. Thankfully, Reeves and the city councillors seem to have awoken to the damaging effect those policies have had on the Square’s atmosphere and liveliness. Councillor Michael A. Sullivan told...
Panelists warned yesterday that rulings by the court in these two cases in favor of the plaintiffs—who claim that the school districts’ policies of using ethnicity as a factor in school admittances is unconstitutional—would effectively reverse the precedent that Brown established...
...Nehamas is one of the typically 4,000 hopeful students who send in applications for Harvard’s Early Action program, which allows students to apply early without obliging them to attend. Disadvantaged students tend to be underrepresented in the Early Action pool in favor of students who are white, wealthy, and well connected. In other words, students like Nehamas...
...country's culture and history left it "in permanent contrast to Europe." On board his Alitalia flight, instead, he was pointing out that modern Turkey was founded on secular ideas of the French Constitution. Later in the day, Vatican officials in fact confirmed that the Holy See would favor Turkey's bid to eventually join the E.U. if it met all the necessary conditions...