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...university officials, but unscrupulous university officials bear just as much blame for accepting these gifts. As administrators of educational institutions that not only teach, but also care for their students, financial aid officials are acting in loco parentis. They should be giving the same unbiased financial advice that a parent would give to her child, particularly because many students have little experience with financial planning when they take out their first student loan.University officials have violated this fiduciary responsibility and should not be given the opportunity to violate it again. Now that financial aid offices are reforming their procedures...
...correct its one major weakness—ensuring that undecided students who are not particularly proactive about finding the right tutor or upperclassman to advise them do not fall through the gaps. But the average sophomore advising experience still looks to be strong and better than its ugly parent, first-year advising. Fundamentally different—and fundamentally flawed—the first-year advising system pairs incoming freshmen with proctors and non-resident Harvard officers who, more often than not, know little about the undergraduate curriculum and are ill-matched to their interests. Building on the success...
Under the controlled-choice plan, parents write down their top choices among the district’s 12 primary schools. Rather than assign students to schools by neighborhood, the district balances parent preferences with socioeconomic characteristics to determine which school each child will attend...
...advocate different approaches to closing achievement gap. Former committee member and candidate Marc C. McGovern argues that in order to make a significant dent, the school district has to expand access to early childhood education and address a host of other factors—like health care, nutrition, and parent involvement. Others, like committee members Patricia M. Nolan ’80 and Luc D. Schuster, have argued that schools perform better if principals are empowered, and they have sought to put millions of dollars into the hands of principals to be used as discretionary funds. And Richard Harding...
...arrested workers have denied the most sinister charges of attempted kidnapping. They've also rejected allegations their goal was to sell the children to couples in France who paid as much as $8,400 to Zoe's Ark parent organization Children's Rescue to take Darfur orphans into their homes. Children's Rescue officials in France have acknowledged the Oct. 25 operation to remove the children from Chad lacked required authorization, but say the urgency of getting the children care made rule-breaking expediency necessary. Zoe's Ark's French lawyer, meanwhile, has suggested there is a political motive driving...