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...specifically Venezuela. While she said that all the governments share common objectives of tackling poverty and creating better opportunities for their people, she acknowledged that they have chosen to go about it in very different ways. “People have paid a lot of attention to the Chavez model and due attention has to be given to the Chilean model,” said Soo Min Seo, a first-year masters student in public policy at the Kennedy School. Despite the weighty topics she discussed, Bachelet kept a light-hearted demeanor throughout her speech and made the audience laugh...
...well outside of the campus expansion) are inadequate, and forced the developer to propose an economically segregated plan, with low-income tenants clustered on one side of Western Ave., while luxury condos rise to ten stories above the river on the other side. This division by income, a model long abandoned by policy experts and urban planners at Harvard and beyond, is a formula for a failed community...
...While many communities would shun the development of hundreds of units of affordable housing, we want to welcome this project as part of a fully integrated, mixed-income community—the model for housing development that has proved successful time and time again. To that end, our Neighbors Forum, working with a veteran planner, has produced its own framework for developing the Charlesview relocation site, and we are calling on President Faust to join with us to implement this alternative...
...enclave. We are actually calling for considerably expanded affordable housing options, in addition to the market-rate units, so that homeowners and tenants of all income groups can be interspersed. Rather than reproduce the stigmas of an older approach to public housing, this plan can help Harvard create a model urban community in Allston/Brighton, just down the street from its gleaming new campus...
...ineffective teaching methods. In one of the most underperforming school systems in the country, New York City schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein has begun to implement novel changes to help improve student achievement as much and as quickly as possible. Most notably, Klein has incorporated a pay-for-performance model that rewards schools for increased student achievement. While this incentive-based plan represents a step in the right direction, more must be done in the way of individual merit pay for teachers to truly improve teaching in every classroom. Under Klein’s model, rather than appropriate bonus...