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Yesterday’s meeting focused on enrollment and transfer rates, geographical distribution of students, and the intensive studies program...

Author: By Rediet T. Abebe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: School Committee Reviews Diversity | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

Schools with skewed socioeconomic distribution are also seeing high student-transfer rates. Schools in wealthier areas of Cambridge are experiencing stable or increasing enrollment, while schools in poorer neighborhoods experience high rates of attrition. For instance, Baldwin and Graham & Parks had twice as many students enrolling than leaving; Amigos, however, had four times as many students leaving than enrolling...

Author: By Rediet T. Abebe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: School Committee Reviews Diversity | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

Committee member Luc D. Schuster was not convinced that the transfer rate is problematic. “We need to consider the number of kids who are transferring more than once and the schools the kids are leaving from,” he said...

Author: By Rediet T. Abebe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: School Committee Reviews Diversity | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

Khazei, who seeks to fill the position vacated by the late Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy ‘54-56, outlined his 10-point plan for Afghanistan, which recommended returning to the original mission of destroying Al-Qaeda terrorist organizations, slowly recalling troops, establishing a timetable to transfer power to the Afghani government, and focusing on the threat posed by terrorist organizations as well as nuclear arms development in Pakistan...

Author: By Barbara B. Depena, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Khazei Says He Opposes Troop Increases | 11/17/2009 | See Source »

...been under renovation for several years might be the key to housing the additional students, but Schmill did not know when that renovation will be completed. Administrators have also not decided whether MIT would grow its undergraduate class size by accepting a larger freshman class or by admitting upperclass transfer students...

Author: By Julie M. Zauzmer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MIT May Add 300 To Undergrad Class | 11/10/2009 | See Source »

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