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...days, from 180 to 175. Though the extra time off might cheer students, California school superintendent Jack O'Connell strenuously opposes the move. Best sound bite: "To close the achievement gap and prepare all students for success in the competitive global economy, we should be offering more time in class, not less...
...many states lament the fact that schools won't see a penny of the extra money until at least July. According to O'Connell, some of California's poorest districts are running out of cash for subsidized meal programs. The Hayward district is planning layoffs that would increase class size in primary grades from 20 students to 32. In Lake Elsinore, schools have turned off the lights in many rooms - and placed duct tape over the switches - to save money on electricity bills...
...year-old teacher of Harvard’s newest music class doesn’t notice students coming in as he discreetly dances to Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies.” Playing from his iPod, the song fills the room. When class starts, he stops dancing—for the most part, at least—but the iPod never goes away.The students of this music class are more likely to study Bob Dylan and Michael Jackson than Beethoven and Mozart. In fact, Backstreet Boys is on the syllabus...
...offerings include a children’s book on the H.M.S. Beagle, a Japanese translation of “On the Origin of Species,” and finch and mockingbird specimens from the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. “The purpose of the class and the exhibit is to see how we take this mountain of scholarship about Darwin—the Darwin industry—and show how he, his life and times, and his contributions of science have been understood over the last 150 years,” said Jenna A. Tonn, a first-year...
...home-buyers' credit of $15,000 was reduced to $8,000. A provision to help car buyers write off their interest payments was also reduced, to $2 billion from $11 billion. The bill does include a $70 billion annual Alternative Minimum Tax relief patch to prevent millions of middle-class Americans from getting penalized by a measure that was originally targeted at the rich. Reid on Wednesday boasted that the measure will cut taxes for 95% of workers, though the final agreement trimmed Obama's proposed tax rebates of $500 a year for individuals and $1,000 for families...