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Throwing money at high school students with good test scores is a simplistic answer that alters the ideals of education, sending a terrible message to students everywhere. The state provides free education because, as a society, we choose to cultivate love for learning. Though many may argue that there are instrumental benefits behind it, learning should not be pegged with money, even if many of these students will grow up to be Wall Street investment bankers...
...interview will travel to A&F’s All-American, 400-acre campus in the woods of Ohio. As Derek Zoolander already copyrighted the “Walk-Off,” A&F has instead instituted the “Style-Out,” a grueling test in which interviewees choose the three hottest styles from a series of fashion designs and explain their picks. In the past, Harvard students have surprisingly out-styled the competition: after visiting 20 top colleges last year, A&F handed Harvard grads eight of their 40 positions. Vicki Mach...
...Just as we live in a time of narrowing distances between fields and disciplines, so we inhabit an increasingly transnational world in which knowledge itself is the most powerful connector,” Faust said.Faust also criticized efforts to hold universities accountable simply on the basis of test scores, graduation rates, and admissions statistics.“We need to define ourself and not simply let ourselves be defined by others,” Faust said in the interview.Perhaps most telling was an anecdote Faust used to close her speech. She read from a recently unearthed time capsule from former...
...variety of music along with news, sports, weather, and entertainment updates. The station will include rock, R&B, pop hits, and Latin chart toppers. In addition, the station is considering recruiting some of the local artists who already play at T stations to broadcast their songs as well. The test program is being run under the helm of Pyramid Radio Inc., a Boston-based media corporation that owns 16 radio stations. The non-music updates will come in 30- and 60-second segments between songs. T-Radio has already enlisted contributors such as Lyndon Byers, a former Boston Bruin, Lenny...
...will be a test of her own intellectual independence, as to what course she chooses to go,” Gomes said. “Oh she’s into bridges, and I think that’s fine—I wish her luck. But the Ponte Vecchio was not built in a day, just like Rome. It’s going to take a long time...