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...courses is the great diversity of the students who take them. Although most of the creative writing courses are capped at fifteen students, participants hail from unique backgrounds, and represent a wide range of ages. One student in Holinger’s class actually flies in every week from Georgia to take his course at the Extension School. Holinger adds that while the Extension School officially caps its creative writing courses at 15 students, he tends to admit more than that “because life intervenes, and students’ lives change: they move away unexpectedly, they change jobs...
...courses is the great diversity of the students who take them. Although most of the creative writing courses are capped at fifteen students, participants hail from unique backgrounds, and represent a wide range of ages. One student in Holinger’s class actually flies in every week from Georgia to take his course at the Extension School...
...wacky patchwork makes it difficult to assess which methods work best or how to hold teachers and schools accountable. Fortunately, there are glimmers of hope that the politics surrounding national standards has become a little less contentious. A growing coalition of reformers - from civil rights activist Al Sharpton to Georgia Republican governor Sonny Perdue - believe that some form of common standards is necessary to achieve a wide array of other education reforms, including merit pay for good teachers and the expansion of the role of public charter schools. (See pictures of inside a public boarding school...
...former senator, a nonprofit founder, and a current Harvard graduate student—all of whom served in the U.S. military—discussed the meaning of leadership and public service in an intimate forum event last night at the Institute of Politics. The speakers included former Georgia Senator Max Cleland; Eric Greitens, who used his combat pay from Iraq and Afghanistan to start an organization that allows disabled veterans to serve their communities; and Maura C. Sullivan, a Harvard MBA/MPA candidate who served for seven months as a marine in Fallujah, Iraq. The conversation dealt with the speakers?...
...help nudge undocumented workers out the door, states, towns and counties have been busily legislating against them. In Georgia, both houses passed a bill that would make the written driver's license test English-only. Farmers Branch, Texas, continues to fight for the right to require that all renters in town show proof of citizenship. In 2008, statehouses passed more than 200 laws relating to immigration, the majority of them looking to clamp down on illegal immigrants or their employers. And there are plenty of signs that as joblessness grows, so too could populist outrage against undocumented workers and their...