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...Crimson also received an extra push last week with the return of junior forward Liza Ryabkina, who recovered from a knee injury. Ryabkina proved to be a valuable player in her first game back, recording one assist and scoring the game-winning goal against Dartmouth last Wednesday...
Though this game presents a challenge for Harvard, the team is focusing more on the long-term goal of perfecting its play rather than solely beating Minnesota...
...Crimson also received an extra push last week with the return of junior forward Liza Ryabkina, who recovered from a knee injury. Ryabkina proved to be a valuable player in her first game back, recording one assist and scoring the game-winning goal against Dartmouth last Wednesday...
This summer, Education Secretary Arne Duncan set a national goal to turn around the bottom 1% of America's schools - approximately 5,000 of them - over the next five years. While he has since dialed back the scope of the project (the Education Department now expects the funds to tackle 1,200 or so schools), the objective remains the same. "My goal isn't quantity but quality," Duncan told TIME in July. "That bottom 1% are made up of dropout factories, where 50, 60, 75% of kids are dropping out. Change around the edges isn't going...
While it's difficult to argue with the larger philosophical goal -let's fix the U.S.'s dropout factories - some critics say the evidence of success in turnaround strategies just isn't there. Worse, it isn't even that clear what makes a turnaround a turnaround. "There's no agreement on how bad a school has to be in order to qualify," says Andy Smarick, a former deputy assistant education secretary who is a visiting fellow at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, an education-reform think tank. "There's no agreement on how long it has to sustain that level...