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...York discovered that its most vulnerable ninth-graders--the weak readers--were much more likely to stay on track toward graduation at the city's newer and smaller high schools than at its large conventional ones. "A big aha," says Hamilton, "is that a single strategy was not going to work. You need a portfolio of strategies." In the wake of the report, the city has examined what the best transfer schools, YABCs and GED programs were doing right and is trying to replicate them citywide...
...pollsters' favorite questions is this: Do you think the country is on the right track, or do you think it's going in the wrong direction? As you would expect, when the right-track number is pretty high or rising, incumbents do well (Ronald Reagan in 1984, Bill Clinton in 1996), or the incumbent's party does well (George H.W. Bush in 1988). When the wrong-track number goes up, the party in power gets ousted. The public wants change and gets it by defeating the incumbent--Jimmy Carter in 1980 and George H.W. Bush...
Right now, the wrong-track number is off the charts. Most polls have two-thirds or more of Americans saying the country is going in the wrong direction, with only about a quarter of the nation believing we're on the right track. Add Bush's 60%-plus disapproval rating, and Democrats think they're sitting pretty...
Last year, the College began to implement its new life sciences curriculum. The first step was the creation of Life Sciences 1a and 1b as introductory courses into any Life Sciences track. The result was predictable. Life Science 1b, “An Integrated Introduction to the Life Sciences: Genetics, Genomics, and Evolution” received a CUE score on average one point lower than other natural science courses with a quarter of its veterans recommending for people to not take the course...
...second step was the division of the biology and bio-chemistry concentrations into five new concentrations: chemical and physical biology, human evolutionary biology (HEB), ,olecular and cellular biology, neurobiology, and organismic and evolutionary biology. The Life Sciences initiative also took over the chemistry concentration, the social and cognitive neurosciences track in psychology and the biological anthropology concentration in Anthropology. While as a whole, this step was a well-planned movement to provide smaller concentrations to students, one problem existed: HEB was identical to biological anthropology in every way except that it replaced social anthropology and archaeology requirements with...