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...have not found one person who likes automated customer service. It's sad to see human interaction being replaced by computerized interaction. Computers cannot solve a problem, smile or tell you to have a nice day. I'm curious to know where the saved dollars are going: Are they lowering prices for the customers, or are they padding ceos' retirement funds? Betty Kroupa, EAST TROY...
...also cited MCAS scores for 10th graders and SAT scores as areas that need improvement. “One also loses trust quickly in a man who claims that multiple prize winners and multiple Rhodes scholars have graduated from CRLS but cannot and will not document his claim,” he said. “CRLS needs structural change and it needs it now.” The school committee was also criticized by more than one speaker at the microphone for failing to produce the student data report for the public. “My last appearance here...
Although partly in jest, Gladwell’s argument is emblematic of a rising public backlash against the Ivy League. With the most recent admissions acceptance rate at a daunting 7.1 percent, it is now, more than ever, clear that a high GPA and strong standardized test scores alone cannot guarantee a place at Harvard. As the admissions game becomes harder and harder to win, many high schools are advising students to dismiss unhealthy infatuations with the Ivy League. The criticisms are not only on the student side: A recent article in BusinessWeek berated the Ivies for using their stratospheric...
...next two years. Harvard’s gates are closing quickly, to the inevitable benefit of those few best equipped to claw their way in: those, that is, with ambitions and resumes as worrying as they are sprawling and meticulous, or aristocratic origins to which our (yes, munificent) institution cannot help but concede...
...making it illegal to teach students in a language other than English. In its place, English-immersion was promoted, in which a student’s native language can be used only to help explain complex ideas. Although such a program may be viable in theory, when a child cannot understand the words on the whiteboard, he or she is unlikely to do well on standardized tests. A monolingual teacher can do little to help, and frustration may only exacerbate the situation. Bilingual teachers can help remove this language barrier by serving as a crucial portal to the English language...