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...Drelinksi stroked Hofstra's third solo home run of the contest off Madick with one out in the ninth inning to walk off with the win and deal Harvard a heartbreaking 3-2 defeat in its first tourney game since...
...it’s why it’s at least the ninth such party to occur on an American college campus since the start of this academic year. The media rightly remarked that this isn’t the first time in recent memory that glaring and overt racism has made waves at a US college, but the amount of attention makes clear that the media outcry is far from the “yet again” attitude expressed by a few online blogs...
After 47 years in education, I am notsurprised that ninth-grade students drop out of public schools, as did one of my grandsons. The problem started many years ago, when junior high schools were dropped in favor of middle schools. We need to return to having junior high serve Grades 7 through 9 and high school serve Grades 10 through 12. Sixth-graders are not ready for middle school; they are still immature. And ninth-graders struggling with the transition into their teen years face similar problems. Let's reconsider how we group students...
Meanwhile, students at a high school in McLean, Va., are trying to bring down Turnitin by suing its parent company, iParadigms, for alleged copyright infringement. To file such a lawsuit, a writer has to pay $45 to register a copyright, be it for a Pulitzer prizewinning novel or a ninth-grader's meanderings on Animal Farm, and the penalty per copyright violation can be as much as $150,000. So if the McLean High School students prevail with their copyrighted essays--a trial will probably begin this fall--ambulance- chasing lawyers will start tailing school buses, and Turnitin may have...
...Dallas? Gay population figures are difficult to estimate because even accepting communities have a closet. But according to the Williams Institute, a gay think tank at UCLA, Dallas has the ninth largest concentration of same-sex couples in the nation. As the Dallas visitors bureau gurgles, "[Dallas] has left behind stereotypes of big-haired women and rowdy cowboys--that is, unless you count sassy drag queens and strapping gay rodeo champs...