Word: parthenon
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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...
...York asked Parthenon to focus on students who were two or more years behind their peers in accumulating credits toward graduation. "We had a hunch that these overage, undercredited kids were the bulk of the dropouts," says Leah Hamilton, executive director of the city's Office of Multiple Pathways to Graduation. That turned out to be more correct than anyone had imagined: 93% of dropouts had a history of being overage and undercredited. In fact, once students fell into this category, they had just a 19% chance of finishing high school or getting a graduate equivalency diploma...
...that I took for granted. I, and probably most Harvard students, spend so much time in goal-oriented mode that we miss out on the chance to reevaluate our plans, take risks, or just enjoy the fact that at twentysomething, we have relatively few responsibilities. The Parthenon became a very literal representation of this realization. Almost everyday after work I would look up at the Acropolis and tell myself that I would finally make the sweaty, dusty ascent to see arguably the most important piece of architecture in the world. But I would always go to the beach or sunbathe...
...basil sauce and a dessert of fruit soup and cinnamon ice cream.[an error occurred while processing this directive] You can burn it off afterward by bopping and bouncing among Athens' chichi socialites at Balthazar in the city center. But if there's a full moon, the Parthenon is the place to be. A frenzy of free events and entertainment has crowds clambering until 3 a.m. FOTIS A. KARAYANNOPOULOS, attorney Begin with a martini at the Hilton's panoramic Galaxy Bar, where you can watch a glorious Greek sunset. Move on to the Panathinaia open-air cinema to catch...
...return to Greece two ancient artifacts: a 2,400-year-old tombstone and a 6th century B.C. marble relief of women offering gifts to a goddess. For decades, Greece has noisily lobbied for the return of relics--especially the British Museum's Elgin Marbles, which were stripped from Athens' Parthenon in the early 1800s. Its efforts got a big boost last year, when Italian authorities put former Getty antiquities curator Marion True on trial for trafficking in looted works. Then in February, New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art agreed to return to Italy the Euphronios krater...