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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...study by the National Research Council last year found that nearly 20% of American students have been held back at some point in their childhood. (Among blacks and Hispanics the figure is close to 50%.) Just how high do we want the percentages to go? This year the Harvey-Dixmoor school district in Illinois tried to require eighth-graders to pass the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills before they could go on to high school. Of 172 students, three-quarters flunked. After realizing the impracticality of flunking so many (and withstanding a shower of complaints from furious parents), the school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Held Back | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...Today they are hired and judged by how they dotheir administrative job," says Harvey A.Silverglate, a Boston lawyer who has writtenextensively about higher education...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Regarding `Rudy' | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

University Provost Albert Carnesale accepts a position as chancellor of UCLA. Harvey V. Fineberg '67, former dean of the School of Public Health, is announced as his successor on April...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Zuckerman, | Title: Seniors: your this is Harvard | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

...campaign's goals were explicitly stated in a February 17 letter addressed to President Neil L. Rudenstine and Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67 and delivered to Rudenstine during his monthly office hours in February...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sweatshop Movement, Living Wage Campaign Forge Different Paths to Success | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

Similarly, Boston lawyer and HLS graduate Harvey A. Silverglate says his impression from working with undergraduates considering lawschool is that people recognize that "it's veryvaluable to have a HLS degree...in terms of beingable to generate choices for after you graduate...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Prestige Chase | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

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