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...began working for the district on July 6, had agreed to present to the committee his plan to resolve the concern over the quality of the education that 6th-8th grade students receive in K-8 schools, an environment some claim is not specifically—and therefore poorly??designed for the needs of early adolescence. Young told the Boston Globe that he will delay making specific recommendations—which he had promised to deliver 100 days after taking office—because he did not have sufficient time to review the issue, as schools have been...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Middle School Plans Delayed | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

...focuses on Mr. Shi as he copes with generational differences. He soon becomes friends with an elderly woman from Iran whom he meets on daily visits to a park. “Madam,” as he calls her, speaks English as well—or, rather, as poorly??as he does, and the pair communicates through broken English, gestures, and their native languages. They form a close bond and anxiously wait each morning for their daily conversations. But when their children step in, the two find that their lives and their friendship are not entirely under...

Author: By Rachel S. Park, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers" | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

...students need to be held accountable, so too do teachers. Study after study shows that teachers are crucial to student performance, vastly more important than any other single factor. So if students do particularly well, teachers should be rewarded with higher pay. And, if a particular teacher consistently performs poorly??students regularly lose ground in his or her class—that teacher should be asked to find work elsewhere...

Author: By Paul E. Peterson | Title: Keeping Education Accountable | 2/6/2007 | See Source »

...familiar UC—now able to focus on advocating change for students. The activists and advocates on the UC would be left to do what they do best—advocacy—and won’t be responsible for what they have historically done very poorly??planning campus-wide social events, reimbursing checks on time, and providing relevant administrative support to student groups and the student body...

Author: By David M. Silvestri | Title: Gillis and Wimberley: We Need a Comprehensive Student Government | 12/1/2006 | See Source »

...Polytechnic Institute 3-1 but losing 2-1 to Union the following night. “We’re disappointed with [that] loss,” said Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91, “and I don’t think we played that poorly??we just didn’t execute.” The Crimson has converted just two of its last 38 power play opportunities, roughly a five percent success rate. The Brown game will be Harvard’s last of three post-exam break contests before Monday?...

Author: By Rebecca A. Seesel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fourth-Place Crimson Seeks to Take Advantage of Opportunities in All-Important Contest Against Brown | 2/3/2006 | See Source »

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