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...each presidential candidate and the necessity of holding candidates accountable for their actions in the past. “Are we rewarding a party that has been by and large with us or a party that’s been working against us?” he said. Students?? responses to the debate were as varied as their reasons for attending. Lisa J. Miracchi ’09 came to the event looking for reassurance of her current political views. “I am a queer person oncampus and a firm supporter of Barack Obama...
...public education: By offering its teachers base salaries of $125,000, the school hopes to bring the best and brightest educators into its classrooms—a logical response to the large body of empirical research that suggests that teacher quality is one of the most important factors in students?? success. Whether or not this bold experiment in education will prove successful remains to be seen. But regardless of the outcome, The Equity Project—the brainchild of recent Yale graduate Zeke M. Vanderhoek—represents a sharp rebuke to the culture of complaisance and mediocrity...
...study proposes that one explanation for the discrepancy might be the caliber of students??and therefore alumni—that wealthier schools attract...
...We’ve been doing the things on the list, and we’re not getting the results we want,” MacDonald said. Deputy Superintendent Carolyn Turk said that the district can use the tests as a preliminary tool to better understand and address students?? needs. “There have been areas of progress, and at the same time, we are able to recognize the areas where we still need to do some work,” she said. But when a school committee member Nancy Tauber asked how educators could help students...
...Harvard students?? competitiveness doesn’t stop in section. Even when it comes to fun, several extracurricular groups feel the need to prove that their event is the biggest and baddest of them all. But when it comes to “structured fun,” which event really delivers? Eleganza Eleganza is held in the Bright Hockey Center each year, pulling in between 1,300 and 1,600 spectators for their corporate-sponsored fashion show. And they don’t even need to try with a kitschy tagline: “Eleganza. That?...