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...Charter schools are another important tool in fostering higher levels of academic achievement. They offer smaller class sizes, more rigorous course loads, and provide students with a viable alternative to failing public schools—placing additional pressure on these schools to improve in response. They also act as “laboratories of innovation,” according to President Obama, in turning out new education methods. Many large cities, including New York and Los Angeles, have seen significant improvement in education quality thanks to the proliferation of charter schools. Illogically, 26 states cap the number of charter schools...
...idea, I probably wouldn’t be spending this much time and energy making it work,” says Lin, who is also a former Crimson associate photo editor. “This idea is just what is driving me to keep going with it past the class...
...According to Miron, there are not enough faculty members available to teach classes such as accounting. Even if there were, says Miron, it is unlikely that any Harvard professor would want to teach the class because it would not be seen as valuable within the liberal arts philosophy of education, especially given the relative ease with which factual business information can be learned. “You can spend an afternoon reading ‘Accounting for Dummies’ and learn the accounting if you’ve first taken Ec 10 and 1010 from...
...time of flux: Mine was the first class to experience the full effects of House randomization, which aimed to end the intensive racial segregation of the Houses. There were attempts to remedy racial disparities, but less attention to gender. Indeed, every time we raised the case for a centralized women’s center, we were referred to the Dean of Coeducation, Karen Avery, whose job was to ensure that “women’s stuff” didn’t interfere with more important work. The higher-up deans and officials were...
...1980s, single mothers have accounted for an increasing share of the homeless population, partly because of increased divorced rates, gender and wage disparities, and the shrinking supply of affordable housing. Officials believe that the current home foreclosure crisis will be adding a new demographic to these statistics: middle-class blacks and Latinos. "It's families that were living pretty independently, doing pretty well. And, through just one event, it was, like, a domino effect - if one part of the puzzle breaks off, then everything breaks off," says Michael Levine, who coordinates social work programs for Hillsborough...