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...battalion.But for some, the politics don’t matter. Williams, whose family has a strong military tradition, found joining the army a natural thing to do. Williams was also inspired when she read Colin Powell’s “My American Journey” in sixth grade. “As a minority, being black and female, I’ve always viewed the army as offering more equality and a better work environment for minorities,” she says. The immediate financial benefits of joining ROTC, of course, are also significant. As a freshman, Waterman...
...undergraduates and Cambridge Public Schools (CPS) students—has recently revised its program in order to provide a more academic approach to teaching dance, as the school system increases its emphasis on standardized test results. CityStep members teach dance skills and promote self-confidence in fifth through seventh grade classes for two 45-minute blocks each week at participating schools. However, some CPS officials noted that problems can arise when programs cut into the normal school day. They said that the number of elementary schools applying to host the program has dropped from seven or eight...
...debate over the portrayal of Hinduism in California textbooks earlier this year.In November, Witzel, the Wales professor of Sanskrit, was notified about edits submitted by the Vedic Foundation (VF) and the Hindu Education Foundation (HEF) for the California State Board of Education’s review of sixth grade social studies textbooks. The organizations said that the books should be revised to ensure that their depictions of Hinduism instilled pride among followers.But Witzel penned a letter—signed by 47 other scholars—imploring the Board to reject the edits, on the basis that they were...
...national disparity between test scores of white and minority students, which usually falls along class lines—affects CRLS and has proved difficult to fix. Only 25 percent of low-income students at CRLS scored at either the advanced or proficient level on the 10th grade Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) English exam last school year. Twenty-eight percent scored at advanced or proficient levels on the Mathematics exam.“If you look at our city, it’s broken up into different classes,” said Krishana House, a CRLS senior...
What makes Vancouver's approach so unusual in North America is that as well as cracking down on drug use, the city treats it as a disease--providing free prescription-grade heroin in a research trial and running a medically supervised injection site--while carefully gathering data on the effects of city policies. At the heart of this experiment is Buxton, a physician-epidemiologist affiliated with the University of British Columbia medical school, who monitors the situation firsthand and meets several times a year with a committee of police, health workers, charities and support groups to collate their reports...