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...intimate environment. Last year the school was re-accredited in record time, according to Knight.NUMBER CRUNCHINGWhile re-accreditation was a positive step for the school, Knight noted that the achievement gap—the national disparity between test scores of white and minority students, which usually falls along class lines??affects CRLS and has proved difficult to fix. Only 25 percent of low-income students at CRLS scored at either the advanced or proficient level on the 10th grade Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) English exam last school year. Twenty-eight percent scored at advanced or proficient levels...

Author: By Laura A. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: School Fights Achievement Gap | 3/13/2006 | See Source »

...like Fatah. When you go to a Fatah gathering in the city, the chairs are disorganized and people shoot with their guns at the air to demonstrate power and control. At a Hamas rally, which usually takes place in elementary schoolyards, the chairs for the guests are in perfect lines??as orderly as disciplined soldiers—and there is not a single shot heard in the air. It is weird,” he paused, “I think the more conservative you are, the more orderly you become. This is how Hamas operates in Palestine...

Author: By Shira Kaplan | Title: Give Peace a Shot | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

These paintings were extraordinary for several reasons. They reduced Stella’s role as a painter to the absolute minimum of applying black paint to an empty canvas­—the white “lines?? were actually thin strips of bare canvas showing through the gaps between stripes of black paint. Furthermore, the geometric pattern of lines??—dubbed “deductive structure” by critics—was derived from the rectangle of the canvas, a frank acknowledgement of materiality directly opposed to traditional painting...

Author: By Julian M. Rose, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Year Before He Broke | 2/9/2006 | See Source »

Nicholas Tornaritis finished the day, however, with one of the Crimson’s best lines??posting six shots and the other Harvard goal off an assist by his brother, Anthony Tornaritis. He played a key role in the Crimson’s offensive domination with 11 shots on goal to UMass’ three...

Author: By Gabriel M. Velez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Soccer Proves Mettle With Pair of Non-League Wins | 9/26/2005 | See Source »

Reynolds said that a majority of Yale’s teaching assistants “respected the picket lines??—meaning they either taught off campus or went on strike...

Author: By Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Grad Student Strikes End Without Result | 4/26/2005 | See Source »

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