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Described by co-founder Madison O. Klein ’11 as “a club for the ridiculously good looking and extraordinarily intelligent, and for those who are of lion-hearted courageousness—and modest,” The Board Riders at Harvard (BRAH) is intent on bringing some West coast surfing culture all the way to Boston. Klein and co-founder Benjamin B. Massenburg ’11, who are from southern California and Hawaii, respectively, decided to found BRAH this year in order to bring their passion for surfing to the Harvard student body...
...found a small school with his sister. He then ran the magnet program for the Chicago board of education and was the system's deputy chief of staff, before being tapped to serve as its head. His 7 years as superintendent produced mixed results. While he oversaw modest gains in student achievement, Duncan's tenure was most notable for his willingness to try anything, regardless of ideological association--expanding charter schools, paying students for good grades, experimenting with teacher merit pay and shutting down failing schools and reopening them with new staffs. He's still keen on such controversial turnaround...
...also clear that the nation's educators are still recovering from the comparatively modest changes that the Bush Administration forced on school districts, particularly the NCLB measure, which so emphasized test scores to the exclusion of other educational goals that many experts now regard it as a failure. NCLB has become, in Duncan's estimation, such a "toxic" brand that his Education Department recently tore down the faux red schoolhouse emblazoned with the law's name that sat outside its main entrance in downtown Washington. Duncan will be instrumental in rewriting NCLB, starting with the name. "We'll probably...
Sandel received no additional compensation from Harvard for appearing in the series, but he did collect what he called “a modest consulting fee” for his editing work for WGBH...
...discovered in a sequestered part of the dune are revealed to be the traces of a mass grave authored by the region’s secret police, the townspeople quickly and mechanically rebury the remains. “The Skating Rink,” with its project still so modest, can only be that reburial.—Staff writer Ryan J. Meehan can be reached at rmeehan@fas.harvard.edu...