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...above student welfare. Teachers should be given the privilege of staying power, however, due to merit, not merely the length of time worked. School districts should certainly make every effort to retain good teachers that have worked for many years, but, if cuts need to be made, they should focus on letting go ineffective teachers instead of simply targeting new ones. If layoffs must be made, they should be done so based on a combination of seniority, years of teaching experience, and performance evaluation. Researchers have suggested a combination of “student-assessment data and principal evaluations?...
...pleased with their effort,” Miller said. “They hustled, they tried to stay in structure the whole time, and they did little things right. You want to constantly work and work and focus on fundamentals and make good decisions, and I thought they did that for most of the game...
...huge trade-off.” Scharpf then enrolled at the Kennedy School and then the Business School before working for the World Bank in Africa. The creation of the Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship, which will be given annually to an HBS alum, is indicative of a growing focus on social enterprise at the Business School. In 2001, the HBS Business Plan Contest added a social enterprise track, and attendance at the school’s Social Enterprise Conference has grown consistently. And with the economic downturn limiting traditional job opportunities, more students have begun to explore social causes. Faculty...
...effectively, putting up three runs, two hits and two RBI. “[We knew] we needed to get our bats alive and get moving, because scoring early on is very crucial to our game,” freshman Whitney Shaw said about the team’s focus going into its second game against UNCG. Throughout the game, nine different Harvard players contributed to the win with hits. Vertovez, who also pitched in the game, joined junior Jessica Pledger and Macadam with two hits apiece. Vertovez scored three times during the contest and Shaw drove in three runs. UNCG...
...Crimson.“[Sacred Heart]’s a really good team,” Weissbourd said. “They serve much better than NYU, actually. It was hard to come off a huge win and come back the next day to play an extremely focused game. In the end, we sort of got it into our heads that we needed this win just as much as we needed last night’s.”But just when it looked like Sacred Heart would earn the victory, Harvard’s star players made just...