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...There is a lot of discussion about how to fix education. Technology can certainly play a role. Students and teachers at my school are thrilled that our building is undergoing a multimillion dollar renovation to include state-of-the-art technology in all classrooms. Kids will be captivated by multimedia geography presentations and interactive math labs. But the old fundamentals will still apply. Students rely on compassionate teachers to guide, to tutor, to listen, to laugh and to cry with them. Teachers provide the most important link in the educational process-the human...
...some sort of college end up actually earning a degree. Cunningham says that students who drop out of high school have a lot of deficits - academic, social, motivational - that a single exam won't cure. Schools and states, he says, need to stop pushing the GED as a quick fix and instead fund full re-entry programs that will help former dropouts who have the desire to go on to college get there and succeed. "What is really needed is a 'GED-Plus,'" he says. "A GED plus more work to get dropouts prepared to do something with...
...mental health personnel, our resources will attempt to address them,” he says, citing numerous sessions and conferences across the country. But given that online gambling is “still a new issue,” McLoughlin says, “no campus has developed a fix-all solution...
...They will be protesting the recent immigration reform proposals to come out of Congress, proposals generally designed to strengthen the national integrity and sovereignty of the United States. We agree that illegal immigration is an issue of vital importance to the U.S. and feel that the best way to fix the problem, among the proposals being debated in Congress, is the two- pronged approach of domestic improvements and border strengthening offered by the McCain-Kennedy Bill. More importantly, however, we wish that the current debate included more of an emphasis on the economic development of Latin America as a means...
...administration has misdiagnosed the problem, and so the solution—the Loker Pub—is flawed. Look forward to an unsuccessful, empty shell far north of student life. A Harvard pub cannot fix us; we have...