Word: parthenon
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WELL, MOST OF THEM Despite repeated requests by the Greek government, the British Museum hasn't returned the Parthenon's marble frieze...
...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...
...York will also have to stem the tide of students who fall behind in the first place. Ninth grade is a major pitfall. Parthenon found that 78% of kids who become overage and undercredited had to repeat freshman year. One key is improving reading skills in middle school--a challenge nationally. Last year 37% of the city's eighth-graders were proficient in reading, up from 30% in 2002 but still a long way from ideal. Another key, Klein believes, is continuing to replace big, impersonal high schools with smaller schools that offer a sense of community and a variety...
...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...