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...public-education system. If you were U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan - who has about $5 billion in discretionary funding and a mandate to fix our schools - what would you do? There's precious little experimentation in education. Instead there seems to be a desire for greater regimentation, which I think is nonsense. I think we need to try 100 different things. If I were Arne Duncan, I'd think of myself as a venture capitalist, fund as many wacky and inventive ideas as I could, and closely monitor them to see how they worked...
...prompting the unit to reduce its workforce by roughly 100 employees and to consider drastic restructuring and consolidation of operations. The administration announced that the Quad Library would close for the coming year to cut costs this spring, and HCL has worked to centralize technical services and transition to greater use of digital materials as well...
...minorities are poor, and not all poor people are minorities. Proponents of socioeconomic affirmative action do not seem to give enough consideration to these two crucial facts in their well-meaning proposition that we transition to an admissions process that places greater emphasis on the socioeconomic background of candidates, while diminishing the importance of race...
Universities took special notice when, in his inaugural address, President Obama called on all citizens to commit to a cause greater than themselves. The president observed that the price of freedom is “a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world; duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly...
Mather HoCo, in cooperation with Currier House, plans to rent a U-Haul truck for the tailgate and operate a shuttle service from Harvard to Yale, according to Mather HoCo Social Chair Ankur N. Agrawal ’11, who said that the rules at Yale offer greater options for tailgate programming. Agrawal is also a Crimson Design editor...