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...also said he was a “bit disappointed” in the lack of discussion on the implications of the district’s Parent Attitudes Study done last year. The results of the study, released in May of last year, reported that 32 percent of parents who withdrew their children from the Cambridge Public Schools system did so because of a perceived “lack of quality education/academics,” and 11 percent withdrew because of a “lack of discipline/safety concerns.” Kelley asked that the budget...
...weeks Sea Shepherd’s decrepit black trawler, the Farley Mowat, will patrol the ice-clad waters of Newfoundland, as Canada’s 2008 seal hunt begins. The Canadian government has increased this year’s permits to allow the killing of 275,000 seals, 98 percent of them babies, in what Watson calls “the world’s largest marine slaughter.” And in spite of new government regulations designed to stop the live skinning and clubbing of seals, Watson says that his crews have already documented seals bleeding to death...
...spent at different colleges. They might investigate the flawed arguments some politicians are leveling against rich colleges like Harvard for raising their tuition, when aid is so generous that most students don’t actually pay the sticker price (Harvard announced that it would increase tuition by 3.5 percent and financial aid by 21 percent). Finally, they might write about athletics recruiting policies, in the wake of the revelation that Harvard’s new basketball coach Tommy Amaker has allegedly lowered academic standards...
...average financial aid package this year is about $40,000, close to 78 percent of the total cost of attendance...
...David R. Pilbeam responded similarly. Fitzsimmons and Smith said that irrespective of the rankings, they hoped Harvard’s new financial aid initiative was allowing more students to consider applying. Another issue that was addressed by the survey was the mental strain of the application process, with 61 percent of the 9,000 college applicants surveyed saying that their stress level was “high” or “very high.” The administrators had divergent views on the issue of applicant angst: Fitzsimmons emphasized the Admissions Office’s accessibility...