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...tolerate the notion that inner-city students were incapable of learning. Escalante, whose inspirational story was the basis for the 1988 film Stand and Deliver, died March 30 at 79 after a years-long battle with bladder cancer. Upon arriving in the U.S. from Bolivia, Escalante studied English at night to earn his California teaching credentials. At Garfield High School, he found that his primarily Mexican-American working-class students were oppressed by a culture of low expectations, and he began to overhaul the school's math curriculum. His young charges did so well on the 1982 advanced-placement calculus...
...plan to store volatile wind power from turbines for electric-car batteries. Today the consumption and production of electricity from wind occur concurrently. Dong is working on a system in which batteries can be charged when cars are used least and when turbine generation is at its highest - at night...
...Crimson (5-12, 3-3 EIVA Hay) was swept by Rutgers-Newark (12-11, 7-0) Friday night and was outlasted in five sets by NYU (5-16, 1-6) Saturday afternoon in a pair of losses that could potentially cripple the squad’s playoff chances with just two games remaining in the regular season...
Enjoy your night, and give a warm welcome to your new House Master...
...unprecedented unity among Polish students on campus, said Jakub Dolecki ’11. Members of the Harvard Polish Society planned commemoration events over the weekend, and many Polish students at Harvard had planned to attend a Catholic Mass at a Polish church in southern Boston last night, Dolecki said...