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...early pool is far less diverse and far more affluent than those who apply to the school through regular admissions. The differences are suprisingly staggering: The most drastic difference in representation between the two pools is in minority matriculants; 19 percent of matriculants from the early decision pool are racial minorities, whereas 40 percent of those accepted in the regular pool are considered minorities...
...Cambridge Public School Committee said that Harvard was not doing enough to help close the achievement gap in Cambridge schools, Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino announced that Harvard and four other Boston universities were teaming up to provide at least $5 million to Boston Public Schools (BPS) to reduce racial testing disparities. The unprecedented collaboration, “Step UP (University Partnership)”—which also includes Boston College, Boston University, Northeastern University, and Tufts University—will aid 10 Boston public schools over the next five years, Menino announced last Thursday. Harvard?...
Over the past three years, I interviewed 700 families across the U.S., asking them what they'd had to deal with. Extremely few mentioned the kinds of problems diagnosed by supermom lit. Rather, they had old-fashioned problems like infidelity, mental illness, teen drug use, poverty, racial prejudice, custody battles, emotional frigidity and marital boredom. The kinds of problems people actually deal with are not covered by anyone but Oprah and Dr. Phil, which certainly explains why they're the cultural phenomena they are. Most families in the U.S. aren't doing too much for their children. They're doing...
...three-year term as a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows, is in his first year of teaching. The assistant professor of economics also heads the new course, Economics 1816, “Race in America.”As a scholar who uses mathematical models to study racial inequality, Fryer said his methodology is unusual, and his new affiliation with the Du Bois Institute shows “how wide-ranging and interdisciplinary the Institute is.” He said his research, which some would find “wacky,” will...
...still a lot of students on campus who don’t know what the Harvard Foundation is and what we do, so we are trying to reach those students,” said Styles. The Foundation was established in 1981 with the goal of improving relations among various racial and ethnic groups within the College community. But opponents of the proposal at the time said that existing institutions could best improve race relations and that such an organization would only aggravate racial tensions. Bok agreed to the Foundation’s creation, but only under the criteria that...