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Twelve strokes behind Harvard heading into the last day, Yale used the efforts of junior Alyssa Roland (78-76-73)—the top individual scorer of the competition—to leapfrog into second place overall, three strokes ahead of the Crimson’s team score of 954. The Bulldogs finished second in the Ivy championship last year as well...
...story of the weekend was Penn’s historical finish at the 54-hole event. The Quaker squad featured three top-10 individual finishers—including freshman Isabel Han, individual runner-up to Roland by one stroke—and no golfer outside...
Providing financial incentives for positive behavior can lead to higher test scores among adolescents, according to a study led by Economics Professor Roland G. Fryer and released last week...
...Divisional Dean of Social Science Stephen M. Kosslyn and included presentations by Peter S. Bearman, Nicholas A. Christakis, Ann Swidler ’66, Nassim N. Taleb, Nick Bostrom, Gary King, Emily Oster ’02, Claudia Goldin, James Fowler, Susan E. Carey ’64, Roland G. Fryer, and Richard J. Zeckhauser...
...find out, a Harvard economist named Roland Fryer Jr. did something education researchers almost never do: he ran a randomized experiment in hundreds of classrooms in multiple cities. He used mostly private money to pay 18,000 kids a total of $6.3 million and brought in a team of researchers to help him analyze the effects. He got death threats, but he carried on. The results, which he shared exclusively with TIME, represent the largest study of financial incentives in the classroom - and one of the more rigorous studies ever on anything in education policy. (See Roland Fryer...