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Homeownership has long been heralded as better for children. Kids raised in owned - as opposed to rented - homes show higher math and reading scores and less tendency to drop out of high school. In recent years, organizations from the National Association of Realtors to the President's Council of Economic Advisers to Habitat for Humanity have made sure to mention those sorts of findings in efforts to push more people to own houses...
...Expect that the best teachers won’t get tenure. In my class, a large number of the students taking math courses appreciated the apparently effortless way one teacher was able to teach a course and a half in one semester. The tenured faculty was not impressed. As explained at our 35th reunion, tenure is a commitment that could last 30 to 40 years. The gifted teacher may burn out. Scholarly productivity is more likely to endure. My experience as a faculty member at a non-Harvard medical school gives credence to the concept. However, I still think that...
...about the hook," says Jennifer Wilnewic, a seventh-grade math teacher in Elgin, Ill., who plans to use the fantasy-football curriculum again this year. As the summer winds down, Wilnewic is prepping her lessons. "I'm going to have [Chicago Bears quarterback] Jay Cutler on my team," she says. Who knew the future of our children might depend on fantasy football...
Then there's the current-day math. A good many carmakers - among them VW - are offering no-interest loans for new cars, while others are advertising rates ranging from 1.9% to 3% for 24-, 36- and 60-month loans. (Compare that with the 5%-to-6% rates for used cars.) "This has been some year," notes Craig Rosenfeld, founder of the Vision Auto Group in Leesport, Pa., which sells Porsches, Audis and VWs. "There have been a lot of changes in marketplace dynamics, in buying habits, sales strategies. We're seeing a lot of traffic, a lot of interesting things...
...Shereen P. Asmat ’12, a Crimson magazine writer, is an applied math and economics concentrator in Winthrop House...