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...ideals of public education resist interest-group politics and pressure from powerful parents. Revamping special-education laws, to give school districts more flexibility in distributing resources, would give a boost to woodwork kids. So would offering incentives for schools to minimize ability grouping or bonuses for schools that put top-notch teachers--who generally instruct gifted children--in middle-achieving classrooms. Michigan State's Schmidt says the predicament of America's average students illustrates the need for a set of "national standards that would articulate what all of our kids need to know." But the first step may be even...
...Band on its 200th birthday [AMERICAN SCENE, July 20]. Oh, how I wish that the start of sports events would feature a recording of the national anthem by this band, or the Army or Navy band--with no vocalist! Let the people sing along if they wish. A really top-notch performance inspires allegiance as nothing else can. But the way many singers and musicians today render the national anthem is an abomination. If I'm watching TV, I turn off the sound until the anthem is finished. DAVID M. BARTHOLOMEW Dundee...
Gardiner and his top-notch musicians perform two versions of Symphony No. 4, one from 1841 and the more familiar 1851 score. Both are wonderful in these performances, even if the 1851 version has sacrificed a little boldness for greater texture. The set also includes a dazzlingly virtuosic performance of Schumann's Konzertstuck for Four Horns and Orchestra (1849) and two "almost" symphonies: the promising, never completed "Zwickau" Symphony, composed in his youth, and the Overture, Scherzo and Finale (1841), with its passages of surprising delicacy and elfin fantasy...
Rudenstine may be leading the fight to preserve affirmative action in higher education, but when it comes to affordability our president is awfully silent. With the largest endowment of any university in the nation, Harvard must change its ways and offer a top-notch program of financial...
Although the Crimson no longer has a chance of claiming the Ancient Eight crown this season, its strong performance against a top-notch opponent showed that it has the talent to compete on a high level. Now, as the second half of the season heats up, Harvard must prove that it can stay at that level...