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...herein lay the problem of most scholarships. A grant and scholarship exists to provide an education using a fixed amount of money. An education is an investment and so is a high school graduate. If we take a high school graduate, the money we put into his education, and the school he attends all as investment vehicles, then scholarships should be turned into college savings plans that pump an initial volume of funds into a portfolio that is guaranteed to bring a positive return...
...variants of the plan a priority. Students should be encouraged to get good grades, involve themselves in activities, and be model citizens to garner the endorsement of nonprofit organizations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. By 2016, the Gates Foundation will have sent 27,000 low-income high school graduates to colleges and universities across the country...
...addition to her usual meetings with international alumni, Faust stopped by a girls’ high school in Japan to discuss challenges that continue to face women in the workplace—continuing her tradition of raising women’s issues while visiting schools for girls abroad, which she did most recently on her November trip to South Africa and Botswana...
...were the “weak link” in the district, according to School Committee member Patricia M. Nolan ’80. However, concerns have arisen that problems in middle grades cannot be addressed without a broader investigation of issues occuring from preschool through senior year of high school, Nolan said...
...said that despite the perception that they are the weakest aspect of the school system, there has recently been some achievement in middle grades, and that the educational disparities found in middle grades also exist in Cambridge’s elementary and high schools...