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...It’s a field that we have had some investment in,” Faust said in an interview. “But this will just jump-start us into a whole new level and set up a program that will be vibrant and bring together the Medical School and the School of Engineering and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences all together and the hospitals...
...DeAngelo didn’t start competing until she was a freshman in high school in Greenwich, Conn.. But the pair has made the adjustment to the high level of competition with remarkable ease...
...scores. A survey of SAT-takers in 2003 revealed that only 14 percent of students who scored over 1420 were from families in the bottom 40 percent of income brackets. Moreover, 46 percent of those test-takers scoring over 1420 came from families in the top quintile in income level. Critics of the current SAT believe this demonstrates the degree to which test scores are determined by background and preparation. In fact, this does not actually explain the numbers. A 2005 College Board survey found that, on average, SAT tutoring raised verbal scores a mere 10 points and math scores...
...wayside. There will always be outliers, and there are surely members of lower socioeconomic classes—first-generation immigrants, for instance—who are on the academic rise. As members of educational elites, we should continue to help pave the way for these individuals by supporting college-level programs like the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative, as well as efforts for younger students, such as the successful New York-based Prep for Prep program...
...social pressures of fashion, which usually exaggerate the impulse to purchase expensive or trendy clothing. In many schools, the pressure to wear the “right” clothes and brands reinforces socioeconomic inequalities among students and permits implicit fashion requirements for friendship. On a more concrete level, requiring uniforms will prevent students wearing gang-related clothing and accessories—a serious problem in Hartford schools—from infecting the classroom learning environment. Freedom of expression may be an important part of our social fabric, but when graduation and proficiency rates are plummeting, fostering academic proficiency must...