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...said that the goal of “Reflections” is not only to reward the achievements of graduating seniors but also to unify the Asian population on campus...
...using the Ivy education to break into baseball may not provide the same immediate financial reward as in other arenas...
...true that the No Child law has problems. It prescribes one treatment for schools with wildly different ailments. And it does not reward improvement. While Margaret Spellings, the new Secretary of Education, said last month that she will allow more flexibility, she has yet to clarify what she means. But whatever happens, states still seem to have significant autonomy. Each can choose its own test--and set its own passing score...
...reckoning, the event was doomed from the start—from the minute students saw the announcement in their inboxes and asked: “The UC’s throwing a booze cruise?” Future UC parties must strike a better balance between risk and reward. We appreciate and encourage the CLC’s attempts to innovate and seek out new ways of improving campus life, but isolated failures like Havana cannot turn into a trend. Nearly twenty-five hundred dollars is a steep price to pay for a proof-of-concept...
Today's pop culture, he writes, builds on rules established by earlier pop culture (as, say, The Simpsons complicated the sitcom genre). And new formats such as dvds make audiences more receptive to complex creations that reward repeat viewing or playing. A traditionalist could say that new media are simply good at teaching kids to use new media, but Johnson argues persuasively that they also force kids "to think like grownups: analyzing complex social networks, managing resources, tracking subtle narrative intertwinings, recognizing long-term patterns...