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...particularly for the suddenly cash-strapped families who in recent years coughed up extravagant sums for private tutoring. Laura Wilson, founder of WilsonDailyPrep, based in wealthy Chappaqua, N.Y., says she regularly gets calls from parents who had signed their children up for private tutoring but are now hoping to scale back. Many are choosing to fill in the gaps through the online program Wilson launched in October, which already boasts 470 students. Parents are also turning to Academic Approach, which has ramped up its online program within the last year: "They're coming back for Child...
...think that's an investment worth making. Clearly it's not off the scale compared to other investments we routinely make for national security and defending the health and well-being of our nation." -On the spending needed to prepare the country for an attack using weaponized smallpox or other bio-chemical hazards. (CNN, November...
...nationwide, study after study still finds that students in U.S. schools underperform compared to students in many other developed countries. Teachers’ poor classroom performance is thought to be a major cause of this education gap, and President Obama has wisely identified teachers’ pay scale as a main determinant of teacher quality. Currently, teachers’ compensation is largely based on their seniority. After teachers gain tenure at a school, their salary steadily increases over time, and they become nearly impossible for administrators to dismiss. This system discourages teacher effort by removing the financial incentive to work...
...work is an example of how artists can instigate change on issues of global importance. “We live in a visual culture, and artists can affect how people see the world,” he said. Mosher said she was motivated to complete this large-scale project by a desire to open up a more diverse discourse on environmentalism. “The environmental community seemed to be self-selective and not diverse,” she said. “Not socio-economically diverse, not geographically diverse, not class-diverse.” Martin Zogran, an assistant...
During her tenure, the soft-spoken leader has seen her purview expand to include a large-scale renovation of Memorial Hall and the freshman dorms in addition to founding Harvard’s Bridge to Learning and Literacy Program, which helps University employees improve their English language skills...