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Under the former "pay per use" method, academic institutions were required to request rights for each use of copyrighted material. If one annual fee covers many of those sources at once, the increased efficiency could be reflected by substantially lower prices...
According to Allan E. Powell, the general manager of the Harvard Coop, the high cost of coursepacks is primarily due to expensive copyright and licensing fees. He said the store's 15-20 percent markup on coursepacks is significantly lower than that of textbooks, particularly when the Coop's annual rebate is taken into account...
...past several years the King and the Fletcher-Maynard, the two smallest of Cambridge's 12 primary schools, have been among the district's lower performing when measured by state standardized test scores...
Massachusetts has been at the center of the movement to add instructional time to the school day as an experiment to improve achievement in lower-performing schools, according to The New York Times. Governor Deval L. Patrick '78 has allocated $6.5 million in state funds toward experimenting with longer class days. So far, 10 schools in the commonwealth—including the two in Cambridge—have used state funding to add instructional time...
...line with other new theories of addiction. Scientists say extinguishing urges is not a matter of getting the feelings to fade but of helping the addict learn a new form of conditioning, one that allows the brain's cognitive power to shout down the amygdala and other lower regions. "What has to happen for that cue to extinguish is not for the amygdala to become weaker but for the frontal cortex to become stronger," says Vocci...