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...socioeconomic backgrounds. He also emphasized that the racial achievement gap exists among all social levels. Other panelists identified ways to help combat this gap. “There is no standard way to fix it,” said former Johnson & Johnson Worldwide Vice President Cedric Jones. Jones praised schools?? willingness to try new and different methods of addressing the problem, including peer mentor programs and parent advocacy groups. HKS student Joshua Garriga added that providing decent jobs, encouraging integrity in children, and focusing on education would help close the gap. But HBS professor David A. Thomas offered...
...decision within a short frame of time.PLAYING THE FIELDJacques A. Barjon, a senior at St. Marks School of Texas in Dallas, had been communicating with an assistant coach from Harvard’s track and field team since August, at the same that he was receiving pressure from other schools?? coaches to make a decision.Barjon, whose school sends many of its students to top colleges, said he was “not the smartest kid in [his] class.” He applied with a 2200 SAT score, and plays football in addition to running track.Harvard...
...lower number of seniors is expected to turn into a smaller college applicant pool, which—at least at some schools??should make admissions less competitive...
...you’re thinking about the big picture nationwide, students in the pipeline—in elementary and middle schools??are generating smaller numbers than have been coming up and through high school,” said Payzant, who led the Boston Public Schools from 1995 to 2006. “There’s no dramatic shift in the dropout rate or graduation rate of students. It’s overall demographics...
...excited about the concentration in an interview yesterday, but cautioned that he and a faculty committee are “still in the early stages of planning.” The new concentration—likely to draw on the faculties of Harvard’s professional schools??will not be put through the approval process until the fall semester, he said. Venky said that the change would add a particularly relevant line of study to the engineering school. “I feel strongly that scientists and engineers have to know a little more broadly about public...