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...someone offered you $1,000 for getting a five on an Advanced Placement (AP) Exam, would you take it? We certainly would. And if you attend one of 25 low-performing high schools in New York City, now you can. This particular incentive is part of a larger program being implemented in New York City this year under the auspices of Roland Fryer, assistant professor of economics at Harvard. The idea behind the program is to “pay for performance” by monetarily rewarding students who do well on standardized tests. Despite concerns that the program undermines...
Although I went into FemSex somewhat skeptically, I found it to be exactly the experience I had been missing throughout the rest of my time at Harvard. I heard about the class when I was performing in the Vagina Monologues in the spring of 2006. This was my first introduction to feminists at Harvard, many of whose ideas I wasn’t sure I agreed with. I didn’t want to have to start referring to “all genders” instead of “both.” I didn?...
...veritable cesspool of overachievers, it is hard to find women who do not groom themselves extensively. My roommate spends an average of half an hour daily sprucing herself up—and that’s just the eyeliner. Yet when I ask other girls what drives them to perform this elaborate daily ritual, the answer is telling. As the women in the many time allocation surveys agreed, this is an activity that makes them happy. On a happiness scale from 1 to 6, “wash, dress, personal care” scores a solid 4.31, above cooking...
...taken, literally, on the wildest ride of all. Friday’s event, advertised as a “presentation” to students over e-mail lists, featured a series of brief appearances by singer-songwriter Spektor before a crowd of students eager to hear her perform at the Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. At 8:15 p.m., two hours after she had been scheduled to appear, Spektor emerged from the Lampoon Castle, riding down the street with ’Poonsters on the eight-person...
According to Megan, future programming for the NCT will focus on educating students as much as giving them the chance to perform...