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...doesn’t stipulate particular outcomes. The federal government merely encourages responsibility from districts and states by lightly policing administrative practices. In order to receive federal dollars—which only account for 7% of the average school’s funds—states need only meet general requirements, like reporting test results, and administering school vouchers. Only in extreme circumstances are principals replaced, teachers fired, or students held back. Schools place imprudent emphasis on average test scores and become overly concerned with fealty to procedure, and the repercussion is that they don’t monitor...
Hillary’s platform notes that we should measure school improvement based on the year-to-year performance of students rather than by how schools with disparate local funds stack-up against each other. Currently, all schools are expected to have a certain percentage of students meet a predetermined level of math and reading proficiency each year. This is a bit like asking the tortoise to beat the hare. It’s possible, but highly unlikely outside the fairy-tale world of stump-rhetoric. Rather than asking low-income schools to catch-up to institutions soaked in high...
...tons of students.” “If they get excited, they should be able to vote,” he said. “An otherwise informed voter, motivated voter, isn’t able to vote if they didn’t meet the government’s arbitrary deadline.” Massachusetts currently requires voters to register 20 days before an election. David C. King, a public policy lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government, said that common objections to EDR include the idea that people who don’t bother to register...
...Harvard women’s swim team (6-1, 6-1 Ivy) saw its streak of five dual-meet wins come to an end this weekend, as it fell to Princeton (7-0, 6-0), 210-107, but defeated Yale (5-3, 4-3), 198.5-118.5, at the annual HYP meet in New Haven, CT.Though swimmers from all three teams compete together, the meet consists of dual-meets between Harvard and Yale, Harvard and Princeton, and Yale and Princeton. “It’s funny that there is added pressure,” said senior diver Samantha Papadakis...
...Harvard men’s swimming and diving team continued its march toward perfection this weekend with a resounding sweep in the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet. The Crimson defeated the usually feisty Tigers 213.5-139.5 and trounced the Bulldogs 227.5-125.5 over the two-day meet in New Haven, Conn. Princeton topped Yale, 213-140.With the double victory, No. 22 Harvard ran its record to 8-0 overall and 7-0 EISL. The Crimson also rebounded from a defeat at the hands of Princeton at last year’s HYP meet, when the Tigers managed to escape with...