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...York used Gates funding to commission the Parthenon Group, a Boston-based consulting firm, to dig deep into its graduation data. The resulting 64-page report, released last October, enabled the nation's largest school district to discern how many kids it was losing, which ones and when. Just as important, it showed what was working to salvage high-risk kids like Maisonet and Garcia...
...calendar were approved twice by the Faculty Council, but were shot down both times after being passed on to the entirety of the faculty.Ironically, the seminal catalyst for calendar reform, the cost of energy, has been reduced to inconsequence. The UC announced as part of its 26-page report on the issue that the total energy savings of calendar reform would amount to a measly $200,000.This time around, advocates are focusing on students’ bottom lines instead of the College’s. Today’s UC has forged a coalition with the Woodbridge Society for International...
...When two users find themselves on each others’ radars, both are told of the attraction. But the Web site can only take students so far. “It is up to you how to pursue,” says Tanjeloff.Check My Radar also includes a statistics page telling each profile owner how many views their page has gotten—both overall and from individual radar-tagged individuals.As a beta project, the current version on the Web is not complete, but it does allow Tanjeloff and Galkowski to receive feedback and ideas for improvement.Tanjeloff says Check...
...example, when you peruse CNN.com’s Education home page, the prominently-featured links often send readers to a Harvard-angled story. This speaks to a widespread media notion that people desire any Harvard news as opposed to important Harvard news. Is our curricular review really that interesting to an outsider...
...rejected such a system when the original committees charged with conducting a review of Harvard’s general education system proposed it over a year ago. Objections raised ranged from it being too vague to it not being able to “put Harvard on the front page of The New York Times,” according to Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan. True enough. A distribution requirement isn’t a particularly inspiring statement on general education, nor even a particularly intellectually satisfying one. But it does retain the advantages...