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...ongoing evaluation of the program conducted by Policy Studies Associates, a research firm in Washington D.C., demonstrates that Citizen Schools participants have higher in attendance rates, lower rates of suspension, and higher promotion rates compared with a matched group of peers at Boston public schools, according to the program??s Web site.The study also showed that 72 percent of eighth graders who completed the program chose to attend top-tier high schools, versus 32 percent of eighth graders who did not.Akiyah B. Francis-John, a high school junior and 8GA alum, says she believes in the impact...
...priority.” Thompson plans to take a year leave before returning to teach at the University, and said he will devote that time to various “writing projects” with an emphasis on exploring democratic theory. Founded in 1986, the program??formerly the Center for Ethics and the Professions—was renamed in 2004 the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, in recognition of a “significant gift,” according to Thompson. The primary mission of the Center is to “help increase the expertise...
...Calling Kacyvenski’s upbringing difficult is more than an understatement—his mother died before he finished high school and his father was an abusive, though now reformed, alcoholic—and he didn’t exactly grow up expecting to become his college football program??s all-time leading tackler, let alone a Harvard graduate...
...Northeast and the Mid-Atlantic are perennial outcasts in the discussion of college football’s powerhouses. The region’s most recognized program??Joe Paterno’s Penn State Nittany Lions—has long neglected East Coast competition to tackle the Midwest’s finest in the Big Ten. Even Boston College fled the inappropriately named Big East...
This is not to say that making the Harvard campus more efficient is a completely unworthy goal. Already, several environmental advocacy groups at Harvard—including the EAC, the Harvard Green Campus Initiative, and the Resource Efficiency Program??undertake various initiatives that save the University hundreds of thousands of dollars each year through reduced energy consumption. But these projects are either small in their expense or large in their monetary savings (or both); a vow to reduce FAS-wide emissions by 11 percent will certainly bring expenses but will not guarantee savings. By this spring...