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...School is in a very real sense a mirror of its community," Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation told Time Magazine. "Time and time again, we saw that community support or community conditions were shaping the school. So, in a very real sense, the report card on the school is a report card on the nation." To change many of those low passes to A's, we need a better institution for funneling community support into the schools...
...dollar's current strength is a mirror image of its weakness in the late 1970s, when it sank to new lows against the West German mark, the Swiss franc and the Japanese yen. Then, many of today's problems were reversed. The abject dollar worsened U.S. inflation by raising the price of imports. European leaders angrily charged that the weak American currency made U.S. exports too cheap and was thus hurting the sale of European goods. The failing dollar also encouraged the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to keep jacking up oil prices since member countries were being...
...author concluded that the best American high schools, which educate 10% to 15% of all students, are the world's finest. Says Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation and former U.S. Commissioner of Education under Jimmy Carter: "School is in a very real sense a mirror of its community. Tune and time again, we saw that community support or community conditions were shaping the school. So, in a very real sense, the report card on the school is a report card on the nation...
Carol Ann Johnston, a third-year English Department graduate student was in her Perkins Hall apartment putting in a contact lens early yesterday morning when the mirror began to shake. At the exact same time across campus, Zoe Bercovitch '87 was doing homework in her Hollis bedroom when the walls started trembling...
...Stones, along with Singer Steve Winwood and Guitarist Eric Clapton. Not to listen to Satisfaction, perhaps, but the svelte, silver-clad Di might have wanted to use the stoppers elsewhere. For weeks, curious Britons have been chattering about whether the Princess is pregnant again. London's tabloid Daily Mirror reported that the Princess had announced her happy condition at a family dinner in Balmoral Castle. But Buckingham Palace has maintained a proper silence about what the Princess quite reasonably says is "a private matter." When she visited a school for mentally handicapped children last week, Di was handed...