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Then in the early 1980s, almost all forms of crime began to decline for a while. The baby boom got old, so the baby boomers were no longer in the crime- prone years. We saw this in declining public-school enrollments. Now, however, if you look at what's happening in elementary schools, enrollments are going up because the children of baby boomers are starting to move through the cycle. My guess -- and the guess of many other criminologists -- is that by the end of this decade we will see an increase in the general crime rate regardless of what...
...argument most often used against abstinence-only programs is that they are a thinly disguised effort to impose fundamentalist religious values on public-school students and thus violate the constitutional separation of church and state. Some of the texts started out as religious documents and were rewritten to replace references to God and Jesus with nonsectarian words like goodness and decency. Still, it makes little sense to criticize the programs simply because they originate from a religious perspective; what matters is not where the courses came from but what they...
...define themselves by their contractions, their favorite sports, their religions or their political ideologies. Others drift culturally to those from the same geographical region. It is the very diversity of Harvard that forces us to specify which parts of our background are important to us. I am a Jewish public-school feminist from Seattle who writes for the Crimson. Most of my friends in at least one (if not more than one) of same categories. It is not racism to suggest that, while a diverse campus is a wonderful real, most of us pick our friends based on common interests...
While city policies strive to create public-school classrooms that reflect this diversity, a report submitted to the Cambridge School Committee last week concludes that there are in fact broad socioeconomic imbalances in the city's schools...
Once again, there is little objective evidence, only personal speculation. David Bennett just stepped down as school superintendent in St. Paul to become president of Education Alternatives, the company that runs the Tesseract schools. It is easy to imagine that Bennett, a proponent of public-school open enrollment, would be a missionary for unrestricted Choice in his private- sector role. Not quite. "No matter how you dress up a voucher system," Bennett says, "the poverty kids will end up with the short end of the stick." In any game of educational musical chairs, someone has to lose. And almost certainly...