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Still, there’s a definite sell-high air around Yale, the only ranked Ivy team, right now, and letting a miserable Georgetown team hang around for four quarters last Saturday did little to inspire confidence. Cornell is the apparent buy-low counterpart, but until the Big Red figures out how to win on the road (0-4 away from Ithaca last season, 2-7 the last two), the smart money stays on the blue team...
...players decided to stay in Cambridge to continue their summer workouts with the team, twice as many as the previous summer, when the captainship was in flux and a performance at Harvard’s annual end-of-summer Skit Night resulted in the dismissal of a wide receiver low on the depth chart...
...black or Latino student graduating from high school "can read and do arithmetic only as well as the average eighth-grade white student." At the same time, on average, white elementary-school-age children go to schools in which about a third of the students qualify for free or low-cost lunches, while the typical black or Latino grade-schooler attends one in which two-thirds of children are in the reduced-price lunch program...
...there is hope. Fifty years after critics charged one Republican President with risking a civil war by sending federal troops into a Southern city to enforce integration, a Republican President is taking on the problem of underperforming big-city schools and what he calls the "bigotry of low expectations." President George W. Bush is seeking renewal of the No Child Left Behind law, which holds schools accountable for teaching every student and narrowing the achievement gap regardless of a child's color, income or family background. Despite its shortcomings, like training students how to pass standardized tests instead of instructing...
Holding the Huskies to only two goals, Harvard defense stifled multiple bids and kept its opponent’s offensive performance relatively low, as UConn tied its second-fewest goals in a game so far this season...