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NCLB does need a major overhaul. Among many other proposals, the Joint Organizational Statement on NCLB stands out for its power to attract widespread support. The statement has been endorsed by 129 national education, civil rights, disability, civic and labor organizations, representing 50 million Americans. The groups recommend that Congress replace arbitrary and unrealistic "adequate yearly progress" requirements with reasonable expectations for improvement, reduce testing mandates, ensure the use of multiple measures instead of one-size-fits-all tests, remove counterproductive sanctions and greatly increase funding. The NCLB should require and provide support for schools to take reasonable steps...
...this year’s labor protest, a building takeover seemed out of the question, leaving the undergraduate activists to adopt a less confrontational—but perhaps more dangerous—method of dissent...
...Harvard’s top governing board, the Harvard Corporation, following Bok’s recommendation. It will be modeled on a proposal—initially advanced by a committee chaired by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba ’53—to begin classes shortly after Labor Day, to move fall exams before winter break, and to end the academic year...
...Kelsey, who won the Roslyn Abramson Award for outstanding undergraduate teaching in 2006, plans to teach a course in the fall on labor and photography and hopes to bring his students to an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He also hopes to have some good pictures of his new daughter to show by then...
...approved his recommendation to create a reformed, University-wide calendar.The new calendar configuration will be modeled on a proposal—initially advanced by a 2003–2004 committee chaired by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba ’53—to begin classes shortly after Labor Day, to move fall exams before winter break, and to end the academic year in May.Implementation of the changes is set for the 2009-2010 academic year, to give Harvard’s 11 schools time to attend to the details of coordination.Though the original report of the Verba committee endorsed...