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...teachers and parents would be an understatement. Would the kids use the technology to cheat? Would they become cyborg Stepford children? Would they, Brooklyn being Brooklyn, get mugged for their laptops after class? "I was worried about how it was going to affect their focus in the classroom," remembers Rebecca Boucher, who has four kids at Packer. "Their interaction, their basic eye-to-eye contact, even. Was it going to become an isolating experience? I was very unclear how it was going to work." The teachers were the ones who would have to answer that question, and they didn...
...Business Finally Comes Through in GDP Number ? TheStreet.com's Rebecca Byrne says that now it's not just the consumers...
...broadly, students who attend failing schools could suffer as the SAT morphs from a test of general-reasoning abilities into a test of what kids learn in school. "There's a danger that making it too curriculum-dependent will actually increase overall score gaps for some minority groups," says Rebecca Zwick, a former chair of the College Board's own SAT Committee. "Because we have such huge disparities in the quality of schooling in the country, kids who go to crummy schools may be disadvantaged...
...Rebecca D. O’Brien ’06, a witness to the crash who is also a Crimson editor, said police told her that they had stopped the car’s driver and taken him to the hospital...
...Staff writer Rebecca D. O’Brien can be reached at robrien@fas.harvard.edu...