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...said the Democratic Party will likely devote most of its fundraising dollars toward campaigns in the House of Representatives this year. Democrats need a net gain of five seats to take control of the body, which has traditionally functioned without cross-party coalitions...
This discomfort has been evident in the recent debates about TECH, Harvard's proposed center for technological exploration. Proponents have likened TECH to the IOP; somewhere students can go to play around with bleeding edge technology, gain programming skills that they can't get in class, get support for Web ventures and learn from the best minds in the wired world. Opponents worry that TECH will become an assembly-line producer of little capitalists, encouraging the moneymaking impulse exactly when we students should be waxing Platonic...
...While having them leave is a big loss for the program, there is also a huge gain in what they have done and the standards they have set for the younger guys." Weiss said. "It is a great way to wrap up the season. We just need to keep taking these steps...
...work when it comes to learning? While the grades aren't in on the long-term impact of for-profit schooling, early marks have been encouraging. Whittle says Edison students have raised their performance on standardized tests an average of 5 percentage points a year--a hefty gain at a time when many districts report little improvement. But not all Edison schools can show performance superior to public schools. Says Whittle: "We either make it or don't make it on the basis of test scores...
...over. Apparently neither Evacuation Day nor the luck o' the Irish will convince the administration to cancel classes for the day. All too typically, presented with an incontrovertible excuse to let students loose from the monotonous schedule of readings and response papers, the administration has decided that students would gain more from another day of classes than from a day of carousing...