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...Charter schools are another important tool in fostering higher levels of academic achievement. They offer smaller class sizes, more rigorous course loads, and provide students with a viable alternative to failing public schools??placing additional pressure on these schools to improve in response. They also act as “laboratories of innovation,” according to President Obama, in turning out new education methods. Many large cities, including New York and Los Angeles, have seen significant improvement in education quality thanks to the proliferation of charter schools. Illogically, 26 states cap the number of charter schools...
Before, Cameron would miss lessons because of the two schools?? different spring breaks. With lessons set at a fixed annual price, “It sort of felt like you would get cheated a few lessons here and there,” she says. Novak points out that communication between the two schools could be improved. And since students only take lessons their first three years in the program, interaction with NEC is limited...
...Harvard University Science and Engineering Committee—created in January 2007 to oversee interdisciplinary science across Harvard’s schools??will no longer accept seed grant proposals for cross-departmental research this spring, University Provost and committee chair Steven E. Hyman said Friday...
...project to expand the school’s faculty from 60 to 100—which would bring it on par with most medium-sized engineering schools??will go forward, although more slowly than expected, according to Spaepen...
...with criticism from interest groups and educators on both sides of the charter school debate. Although the governor’s proposal would allow more students who want to attend charter schools to do so, the additional funding comes with the stipulation that 80 percent of the new schools?? enrollment should come from historically low achieving populations, including low-income, minority, and special needs students. “He’s setting up charter schools to deal with the most difficult population[s],” said Jed F. Lippard, head of Prospect Hill Academy, a charter...