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...dropout rates and improve classroom culture in short order - are perhaps the most ambitious part of President Obama's education-reform agenda. But it's a high-risk intervention. "This is like telling doctors to pick patients with the most advanced forms of cancer and make them better," says Jack Jennings, president of the nonpartisan Center on Education Policy. (See pictures of teens and how they would vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Quick Fix for America's Worst Schools | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...with police chiefs across the country, TIME heard the same story again and again. It is the saga of a revolution in law enforcement, a new way of battling the bad guys, and it begins, at least in some tellings, with a colorful New York City transit cop named Jack Maple. He worked the subways back when the city was averaging four, five, almost six murders a day, and even though the experts informed him that crime was inseparable from such "root causes" as poverty and despair, Maple developed a theory that the key cause was criminals. If police collected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Behind America's Falling Crime Rate | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...watch Jack legislate was to see a master at work. But more indicative of his character was the way he communicated with our men and women in uniform, whether near the battlefield or at their bedside. He thanked them for their courage and listened to their concerns. He always answered their needs, responding to their calls for body armor, up-armored vehicles and reliable radios. In those moments, he bonded with them through his own personal military experiences--as a Marine who fought in the Vietnam War--and cared for them like a father. I'll never forget the sparkle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Murtha | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

Congratulations to Jack A. Ausick ’13 of Greenough, Colin Zwanziger ’13 of Wigglesworth, and Zauzmer (who is also a Crimson editor) of Straus, who came in first, second and third respectively.  Really, if only spelling were an Olympic sport, Harvard frosh could totally dominate...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spellbound by Freshmen | 2/20/2010 | See Source »

Most Harvard students have never heard the words “solipsism,” “fantoccini,” or “einkorn,” but two-time Scripps National Spelling Bee contestant Jack A. Ausick ’13 spelled them flawlessly last night at the second annual Freshman Spelling...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Freshmen Spell For IM Points in Bee | 2/19/2010 | See Source »

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