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...doesn't necessarily mean Mom or Dad should be camping in the classroom. Research shows that though students benefit modestly from having parents involved at school, what happens at home matters much more. According to research based on the National Education Longitudinal Study, a sample of nearly 25,000 eighth-graders, among four main areas of parental involvement (home discussion, home supervision, school communication and school participation), home discussion was the most strongly related to academic achievement...
...perfectly with the extended silences and moping harmonies that make up the rest. There seems to be a pop sensibility peeking out from behind their austere sound, as something resembling a more conventional melodic structure rears its head in the middle of some of these new songs. As their eighth album, it represents a major shift for the band: it is their first album for new label Sub-Pop (which, ironically, was Nirvana’s first label, and the current home of Garden State favorites The Shins and the Postal Service), and was co-produced by David Friedman, famous...
Harvard has traditionally excelled in the brief history of the award, now in its eighth year, with its players winning four of the first seven. Angela Ruggiero ’02-’04 became the first defenseman to take home the prize last year, after Jennifer Botterill ’02-’03 was the first two-time winner the year before that. A.J. Mleczko ’97-’99 was the second-even recipient of the award in her senior campaign...
Perhaps more importantly, in the most recently released set of Pairwise Rankings, (a formula that imitates the method used by the NCAA Selection Committee in determining the bracket for the Frozen Eight,) Harvard jumped to No. 5 from the tenuous eighth position...
...charge wasn’t Stehle’s only clutch contribution. He came in as a 71.4 percent foul shooter—good for eighth in the Ancient Eight—and did not disappoint down the stretch. He converted all four of his attempts from the charity stripe in the final 45 seconds, helping keep the Tigers...