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...Let’s have it on April Fool’s Day,” he said of the pending discussion. The committee also got some welcome news last night when it was presented with new data showing that Cambridge Rindge and Latin School??the city’s only public high school??outperformed the state average by eight points in its four-year graduation rate. According to the report, released by the Massachusetts Department of Education, 89 percent of seniors graduated from Rindge and Latin last year, an increase of two points from...
...awards will be granted only to first-year students and will not affect their eligibility for need-based Fellowships, according to the school??s Web site...
Under the terms of the deal, Millennium will provide funding and resources for collaborative interaction between the two institutions. In return, the Medical School??s Office of Technology Development (OTD) granted Millennium a license to Harper’s laboratory, meaning that the pharmaceutical company will own intellectual property rights to any collaborative discoveries and will take the research towards the clinical-trial phase...
...does and does not demand from schools. To begin with, it doesn’t stipulate particular outcomes. The federal government merely encourages responsibility from districts and states by lightly policing administrative practices. In order to receive federal dollars—which only account for 7% of the average school??s funds—states need only meet general requirements, like reporting test results, and administering school vouchers. Only in extreme circumstances are principals replaced, teachers fired, or students held back. Schools place imprudent emphasis on average test scores and become overly concerned with fealty to procedure...
...aforementioned vagueness. The rule is likely to be implemented in different ways across different houses, and therefore the status quo, in which some tutors have stricter policies than others, will probably continue under the new rules. This rule, and others, also makes no mention of the school??s amnesty policy, which is another sign that the school may be moving from an alcohol policy aimed at promoting health and safety to one fixated on eliminating underage drinking entirely. While the content and focus of these policies are troubling, we are particularly appalled at their unjust implementation. The student...