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...project included a number of educational programs, including small workshops with Harvard undergraduates. In the five years thereafter, the project’s scope expanded to include programs in Chicago and New York City middle schools.The program in New York, called Silk Road Connect, intensifies a pilot program first implemented in Chicago in 2007. The program was motivated by troubling statistics that connected a lack of academic interest in middle school with low college graduation rates, says Laura Freid, executive director of the Silk Road Project. Silk Road Connect seeks to inspire “passion-driven learning?...
...looking to see how the IOP could be involved in doing some sort of pilot work to see what it would look like to have student-initiated programming for J-Term,” Bok said...
...Cleveland Show was meant to be a kinder, gentler Family Guy. The Griffins' African-American neighbor Cleveland returns to his hometown, where he marries his high school sweetheart. The pilot showed promise: Cleveland, a good-hearted sad sack, is sweeter and more sympathetic than Peter, and he has actual motivations - starting his life over and connecting with his awkward son and two stepkids. But Cleveland pretty quickly became Family Guy II, with similar characters and dynamics (Cleveland's toddler stepson Rallo is essentially Black Stewie) and the same taste for quick-fire cutaway jokes and pop-culture references (including self...
...pediatrician working on the Danville campus, opened the record of a 4-year-old boy coming in because of an earache, and his entire history, from birth, popped up on her screen. So did a yellow alert that recommended the boy participate in a study called Garden Gang, a pilot program designed to teach kids how to eat better. When Grauso-Eby scrolled down, it was clear why the computer flagged this kid: the preschooler weighed 80 lb. (36 kg) - off the digital chart that tracks his growth curve...
...Pilot fatigue has become an issue of growing concern among safety advocates, especially since the February crash of a Continental Connection flight near Buffalo, N.Y., that killed all 49 onboard and one person on the ground. One of the two pilots is believed to have been awake all night before the flight and the other was known to occasionally sleep in the crew lounge at Newark Liberty Airport. The FAA is expected to release new regulations on pilot work limits next year. "I don't think many regular company employees would be able to work 16 hours a day, five...