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...students whose school districts offer them full-day kindergarten are more likely to demonstrate higher achievement over the course of their educations. But as many as 214 of the state’s 372 school districts don’t yet offer kindergarten for more than the half-day minimum, splitting their students into groups that attend class before or after noon. While the investment required to guarantee full-day education for all 10 year-olds in under-performing districts—$1 billion spread over 10 years—is by no means negligible, the long-termbenefits are even...
...members of the Board of Trustees even before he was appointed president. Yet because Goldin had the strong backing of Silber, some members of the board kept their doubts to themselves and Goldin was voted in unanimously with most of the conditions of his contract—including a minimum $600,000 per year paycheck—satisfied...
...decades. Its only requirement is toxicity trials that span six to eight weeks. In an effort to entice companies to conduct lengthier studies, the agency now grants an extension of six months of exclusive marketing rights to any company engaging in studies of a drug's effects on a minimum of 100 children for more than six months. "It's a relatively small amount of data," acknowledges Dr. Thomas Laughren, a psychiatrist with the FDA's psychopharmacology division, "but it's better than what we had before, which was nothing...
...define "turning around" as "more jobs paying above minimum wage", or as "more middle-class wage-earners employed". We are approaching a crisis in the loss of manufacturing and skilled-labor jobs that will create a two-class economy: the wealthy and the fast-food and Wal-Mart workers. An economy like that is closer to the Third World than the U.S. of the 40s through the 70s. Mark Shanks Portland...
Take a look at your Harvard hoodie, and you might see a familiar swoosh. Just before Nike made its first appearance at the Coop in 2001, a factory that produces college gear for the company was reported to be shamelessly abusing its workers, from paying sub-minimum wages to denying access to bathrooms, and illegally firing hundreds who went on strike to demand they be treated like human beings. The conditions at Nike’s Kukdong factory in China were uncovered by the Workers’ Rights Consortium (WRC). When their report on Kukdong was released, universities belonging...