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...Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP), one of the most successful charter-school networks in the U.S., has been doling out financial incentives for 15 years, using a model that happens to align perfectly with the results of Fryer's study. KIPP students get paid for actions they can control - getting to school on time, participating in class and having a positive attitude - with "money" they can redeem for supplies at the school store. Over the years, KIPP leaders, who now run 82 schools nationwide, have learned a lot about which rewards work and which do not. They have found that...
...plan also emphasizes the need to align the curriculum in all the middle schools and better organize the transition between middle and high schools to level the disparities between the quality of education at the different middle schools...
...report, which makes a critical assessment of the Depository, presents a series of reforms for the once state-of-the-art facility to better align it with the University’s current library system...
...summer of 2008, and the two have remained close and socialize often. "It's an asset to be close to the President," says Jamie Gorelick, an old friend of Holder's and a former Justice Department official, "and to have a sense of how your actions will align with his judgments." Holder and his wife were invited to the private dinner at the chic organic restaurant near Dupont Circle where Obama feted his wife Michelle on her birthday early this year. "It's interesting," Holder says, sitting in his conference room in the Justice Department. "It's like you have...
...study found that cyanobacteria produce carboxysomes—organelles instrumental in the process of carbon fixation—in quantities proportional to the length of their longest axis and subsequently align these organelles uniformly along the axis, according to David F. Savage, HMS research fellow and co-lead author of the study...