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Duncan pointed to a national dropout rate of 27 percent as an indication that sweeping reforms are needed in K-12 education. He also emphasized early childhood education, college prepatory coursework, and the use of transparent data collection to track student progress...
...greater common good.” Noted activist Arundhati Roy’s essay of the same name charted—through her example of dam building—how much havoc the process of development has caused. It is a well-known fact that approximately 40 percent of the land acquired for development projects in India belonged to adivasis. Recently, a committee composed of none other than officials of the Indian government acknowledged this fact...
...release alone. In India, with its layer below layer of distress and cruelty, it had to come as disturbance...India was now a country of a million little mutinies.” There are big questions to answer for a country that, while proudly trumpeting seven-to-eight percent growth rates each year, also ranked 134th in the Human Development Index in 2009 report. A breathless—and often mindless—form of development at the cost of the voiceless and marginalized is equivalent to practicing a form of internal colonialism. The state must stop conducting...
While the Harvard men’s basketball team has excelled this season at reaching the free throw line and converting opportunities there—its accuracy of 77.1 percent at the charity stripe is good for third in the nation—the Crimson still has a ways to go when shooting from long range...
...unselfishness was eclipsed by co-captain Jeremy Lin, who finished with seven assists while being held to just eight points. On the eve of Senior Night, it was the Crimson’s underclassmen that carried the load, accounting for 73 points—or 80 percent of the team’s scoring...