Word: recruits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nine weeks of Navy basic training begin on a luxury bus that takes recruits from O'Hare airport to the Navy's lone boot camp, Great Lakes Recruit Training Command, just north of Chicago. Onboard they watch an 18-min. orientation video with a rock-music soundtrack in which recent boot-camp grads tell the new arrivals that "physically, anybody can get through boot camp," and that it's O.K. to cry. Recruits get a "Blue Card," which helps them deal with stress. The card instructs a recruit to hand it over to a Navy trainer...
...high-stakes tests can have other unfortunate consequences. Because high scores can bring rewards to the school--Texas at one point offered principals $5,000 bonuses for boosting TAAS results--while low scores invite sanctions, high-stakes tests may make it even harder for schools serving disadvantaged students to recruit the best faculty. Some schools inflate their scores by tinkering with the test pool; techniques include pushing low achievers into special education, or making them repeat a grade, which may cause them to fall further behind and ultimately drop...
While these three fields account for 60 percent of the firms that recruit at Harvard, they provide 80 percent of the jobs, according to Cosentino...
With new groups possibly on the way, PBHA may also be able to strengthen at least one of its present programs through an alliance with Nike. The company has asked Cambridge Youth Association, a PBHA program, to help recruit volunteer coaches for youth sports. In exchange, students participating in the program will receive a stipend from Nike...
...course, the endowment provides extra funding to make these high salaries possible which, in turn, allows Harvard to recruit the most prestigious faculty...