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...collaborating with the Student Calamity Fund, an organization launched by Harvard Business School students in response to the typhoon, which has left 295 dead...
Michael J. VanRooyen, co-director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, said he was more optimistic that “student efforts play a positive role in generating a bigger buzz of activity...
Raising awareness has been the main achievable objective of many Harvard student groups spearheading disaster relief efforts in the past...
...head of the TEA, Commissioner Robert Scott, has added a second component to the policy change. If a student enrolled in college-bound courses is placed in a DAEP, Harris-Lawrence says, those lessons must be made available to him or her so that the student's graduation plan is not changed. In practical terms, that means an administrator might think twice about sending a student to DAEP if it means adding teaching resources to the alternative school...
...American Bar Association, in a report on zero tolerance, said the policy casts a "cloud of fear over every student in every classroom." Despite the changes, Hink says the fear still exists and extends to parents. "Once the parents find out, there is initial anger, then they are overcome by helplessness and crawl back into a hole," he says. "There is a huge fear of retaliation." Hink says the new law is a "first step," and his group will be watching to see if the numbers change and those anguished posts from parents diminish...