Word: exhibited
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...report, titled Crossroads in American Education, evaluated 1.4 million students ages nine, 13 and 17 over the past two decades. On the positive side, it found that students have improved in "their ability to do simple computation, comprehend simple text and exhibit knowledge of everyday science facts." The performance gap between whites and racial minorities seems to be closing, although it remains "unacceptably large." By the end of high school, blacks and Hispanics still lag three to four years behind white students in achievement...
...Northern European art, was inadequate. A lack of climate control and a problem with housing the museum's growing need for space prompted Harvard to consider building a new museum for the collection. Yesterday, the plans for the new structure were unveiled at the Fogg in a special exhibit, The New Building for the Busch-Reisinger Museum: Plans and Drawings by Gwathmey Siegel and Associates...
...current exhibit consists of 14 prints of the proposed architectural plans, including two exterior-view prints hand-colored with pencils, two samples of materials to be used in the building and a cardboard scale model of the new museum. Although the exhibit is not similar to the retrospectives and theme collections the Fogg usually displays, the scrupulously plotted plans of the building are aesthetically interesting, and possibly fascinating to those interested in architecture...
...exhibit is significant in that it shows not only the design of the building, but also its relation to neighboring buildings. The architects seem to have fulfilled Harvard's wish of unifying the museums. One of the building's designers, Charles Gwathmey, who will be discussing his firm's work at the Fogg next Thursday, said last week that the project "imaged [the museums] into a kind of architectural assemblage that would present the Fogg as an institution of parts but all interconnected." Accordingly, the plans demonstrate how the architects integrated old and new into a cohesive unit, both structurally...
Although the public opening of the exhibit was slightly delayed because an item in the collection was held up at customs in Detroit, the rest of the collection went up as planned. The plans are being shown in the west wing of the Fogg through the middle of March...