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...proof that cracking down on social promotion will work. Most research shows that retaining students in the same grade rarely lifts their achievement. More often it demoralizes kids like Walker--and increases their chances of dropping out. "With respect to whether retention is a good idea," says University of Wisconsin professor Robert Hauser, who studied the issue for the National Research Council, "the answer is no or almost never...
Since then, Harvard has created a Faculty task force, chaired by Weather-head Professor of Business Administration D. Quinn Mills, to investigate the need for and cost of implementing a living wage at Harvard. A University of Wisconsin symposium on the issue may also help Harvard...
...time PSLM staged its March 9 rally, students at several other schools had already won concessions from their administrators through protests and sit-ins. Schools such as Georgetown, Wisconsin and Duke had said they would withdraw from the Collegiate Licensing Company (CLC) if it did not disclose factory locations by the end of the year...
...Black-and-White won races against Cornell, MIT, Northeastern, Syracuse, Dartmouth, Boston University, Wisconsin and Yale...
...products--nonmilitary items with military applications--to China have long had security lapses. In 1994 McDonnell Douglas sold China machine tools for a civilian machine center in Beijing. The company learned later that they had been diverted to a military complex nearly 800 miles away. A report by the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control found that from 1988 to 1998 "a large and steady flow of strategic equipment went to China with the U.S. Commerce Department's blessing." Among the items sold to China legally: computers nominally for the Chinese Academy of Sciences that could be used in nuclear...