Word: recentering
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...Tough economic times will mean tough choices,” McGovern said, adding that the guidelines presented a way of making those choices. Cambridge spends about twice as much per pupil as other districts in the state, but the most recent Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) results show that the district suffers from a significant black-white achievement gap and scores well below the state average...
...most bizarre part of the most recent issue is the ads. Let’s play a little game of real or hoax. Which of these ads are legit...
Harvard professors are currently the highest paid in the country, according to a recent report by the American Association of University Professors, with an average salary of $192,600 per year. In the 2009 fiscal year, FAS spent $147.8 million on all faculty salaries, according to the Dean’s Annual Report...
...larger significance. But some have gifts that realistically could be expected to lead to world-changing breakthroughs, cures, or innovations; greater respect for politics; even to hundreds of profoundly moved and inspired students. Moreover, this reflects something far more pervasive. Consider President Drew G. Faust’s recent laments for the increasingly material, instrumental ambitions of so many of her students. She has noted the steep national decline in the percentage of students majoring in liberal arts and sciences since the 1970s, with a dramatic rise in undergraduate interest in business. At Harvard, economics attracts a higher percentage...
...from both public and private partners, distributes nearly a quarter of all HIV/AIDS donor money. But while PEPfAR saw a small increase in funding for the current fiscal year, the U.S. government's contribution to the Global Fund was flatlined, exacerbating an existing shortfall that threatens its work. A recent paper by Harvard researchers Rochelle Walensky and Daniel Kuritzkes warned that failure to increase HIV/AIDS funding could have serious consequences for countries like South Africa, where only a linear (as opposed to exponential) expansion in the number of people treated with ART would result in 1.2 million avoidable deaths over...