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...charters are granted by the state—Nolan says that Cambridge should be taking other “bold steps” that have proven successful in addressing under-performance in cities across the country. Among them is increased tutoring for failing students, the hiring of more math and literacy coaches, and more teacher mentoring programs within the classroom...
...While many of the School Committee members were shocked by Nolan’s proposal, she says that immediately after she was elected in November, she sent memos to her colleagues urging them to send $3 million to school principals so that they could hire math and literacy coaches for the spring...
Certainly, there were some positive changes implemented this past year. Congress and President Bush created Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent (SMART) grants which offered financial incentives for students studying science, math, or certain foreign languages. These $4,000 grants wisely encourage undergrads to explore academic areas the U.S. is currently perceived to be lagging behind the rest of the world. Congress also passed an initiative allowing purely online colleges to receive federal funding. While an “e-ducation” might not be the same as attending college in person, the legislation recognizes that not everyone...
...benefit from diversity.He hypothesizes that a graduate school of education may benefit from admitting students from both the inner-city and the suburbs, and that a divinity school could enrich its educational experience by admitting students who follow different faiths. But diversity might not matter as much at a math or engineering school, Klitgaard argues. And he contends that the benefits of diversity in an undergraduate setting seem even less certain.“How the average student benefits from studying at college with different numbers or proportions of blacks or Californians or athletes or socialists is not clear...
...chance to take advantage of Harvard’s opportunities. Worth, an English and American literature and language concentrator, says that her favorite and most challenging classes included English 200, “Old English,” a course on the history and literature of Ireland, Applied Math 110, and Visual and Environmental Studies 40, a studio class in design. A LIFE-LONG DEVOTIONUpon her graduation from the College, Worth went to work for the Harvard Admissions Office and became a freshman proctor.“I knew I wouldn’t have been admitted to Harvard...