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While Harvard's investment has been praised as a sincere effort to help Boston schoolchildren, the partnership also represents a continuation of the University's efforts to better community relations with areas that figure prominently into the University's expansion plans in the future...

Author: By Imtiyaz H. Delawala, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Pushes Local Investment | 3/14/2001 | See Source »

...California, Richard Atkinson, made a speech proposing dropping the SAT. It looked as if testing was going into ebb tide, right? Then, a few days later, George W. Bush began his first major address as President by proposing an enormous new federally mandated regime of standardized tests for public schoolchildren, with every student being tested in reading and math every year from third through eighth grade. This would be the first Washington-ordered standardized educational test, and if instituted it would increase the scope of testing by far more than Atkinson's proposal would reduce it. So what's going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Do These Two Men Have In Common? | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...California, Richard Atkinson, made a speech proposing dropping the SAT. It looked as if testing was going into ebb tide, right? Then, a few days later, George W. Bush began his first major address as President by proposing an enormous new federally mandated regime of standardized tests for public schoolchildren, with every student being tested in reading and math every year from third through eighth grade. This would be the first Washington-ordered standardized educational test, and if instituted it would increase the scope of testing by far more than Atkinson's proposal would reduce it. So what's going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Do These Two Men Have In Common? | 3/4/2001 | See Source »

Without Pluto, the minds of a generation of schoolchildren raised on a steady diet of nine planets would go hungry. What will happen to the familiar "My Very Energetic Mother Just Served Us Nine..." Nine what? Kuiper Belt objects? No good mother would serve her children those...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: Editor's Notebook: In Defense of Pluto | 2/28/2001 | See Source »

...township environment. I could not help but wonder what benefit was given to me by being forced to learn Afrikaans, a language not of my ethnicity nor from my culture. Perhaps de Klerk should have tried to explain his reasoning on June 16, 1976, when unarmed schoolchildren were shot and killed as they demonstrated against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction...

Author: By Stewart TING Chong, | Title: Seeking Credibility and Truth | 2/23/2001 | See Source »

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