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...education. “If there is no incentive to change curriculums, if there is no reward for educational innovation...then change will come very, very slowly,” he said. Summers also addressed what he called “questions of values,” such as grade inflation and consistently applying high ethical standards. “Institutions’ deeds speak louder than their words,” he said. “These do shape characters and these do shape values.” Tufts University President Lawrence S. Bacow, who invited Summers as part...
...Willie, who is an expert on desegregation and controlled-choice, said that achieving diversity in the early years of school is particularly important because students tend to remain in the same school through eighth grade...
...once before at previous lectures yet who seem to be taking the test. You should also participate a fair amount in sections, so your classmates and teachers get to know you on a first-name basis. Good class participation is important, as it can be beneficial for both your grade and your reputation as a non-creepshow. Plus it can be really embarrassing if your entire section doesn’t even know you. One time I walked into my section and my TF asked me if I was lost. It was six weeks into the semester...
...Jessica S. Benjamin ’07 were what caught the attention of director Dipika Guha during a read-through of the script in their playwriting class. Before last semester, Benjamin had never written or produced a play, and her only experience as an actor was in a sixth grade production of “Hamlet.” But when assigned to write a play as a final project in her creative writing course, Benjamin embraced the challenge. WORDS, WORDS, WORDS “The Secret Lives of Umbrellas” consists of a series of scenes loosely linked...
...state transfer - even though her two siblings still attended the high school. At least two dozen students officially listed as transfers were found by TIME to still be living in the district. Among them was Andrew Dreher, a white student who voluntarily dropped out in 10th grade, never left Charlotte and is currently working at a fast food restaurant...