Word: schoolsã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...exciting for me about the past two weeks has been to see so many parts of our community act without waiting for the administration. I have seen undergraduates come together in unprecedented numbers. I have seen graduate students organize at the Divinity, Education, Law, Government, Public Health, and Medical schools??completely astonishing and new support for a living wage. I’ve even seen a few people from the Business School. I’ve seen numerous alumni join us by pledging money to the Harvard Workers’ Center at the Law School...
Davis-Mullen is an acknowledged policy-setter in the city’s schools, having pioneered a “neighborhood schools?? initiative...
Such, at least, is the outward appearance of school testing and privatized school plans. Yet in reality neither of these alternatives gets tough on schools??at least not in any effective way. In brief, school testing can signal that there is a problem in a school, but does very little to identify the problem or come up with useful, appropriate solutions. Annual school testing is micro-management without any given direction: Big Brother watching but not giving any useful advice...
...earlier start to the year would lift the Administration’s burden of providing special housing to student athletes, who currently must arrive at school several weeks early to train for a season corresponding to other schools?? schedules. An earlier end to the spring semester would assist students seeking jobs or summer programs that begin in late May, improving the reputation of the Office of Career Services. And the new schedule would save admissions officers from charges of hypocrisy, as they publicly decry student burnout and at the same time deny students so much as a single...