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...Quad incident has sparked letters from a number of African-American alumni writing on the Black Alumni Network list serve under the heading, “the more things change, the more they remain the same.”A number of students and their parents have stated to me that policemen demanding identification cards from African-American students is reminiscent of the South African apartheid era, when blacks were routinely forced to show their ID cards to white police when they were thought to be “out of place.” Many of our Harvard Police...
...Feldman ’92 of New York University. Professor of Law John F. Manning ’82, who was a member of the committee that recommended Sitkoff’s appointment, said that Sitkoff’s presence on the faculty would allow the Law School to remain on the cutting edge of trust and estate research. “Harvard Law School has traditionally been a center for the most innovative scholarship in trusts and estates, and Professor Sitkoff will continue that tradition,” Manning said, adding that Sitkoff has proven...
...neighborhoods. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki depends on Sadr's support to keep his job. Nearly two months ago, he ordered six of his followers to resign from Maliki's cabinet, to protest against the government's failure to secure a withdrawal timetable from the Americans. But his loyalists remain in parliament, giving him a big say in any legislation that comes up for a vote...
Whether NCLB is achieving its objectives remains an open question. Fourth-grade reading scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) rose sharply from 1999 to 2004, but most of the gains occurred before the law took effect. The achievement gap appears to be narrowing in some spots--fourth- and eighth-grade math scores for minorities, for instance--but not others. The gap between white and black eighth-graders has widened slightly in math, for example. Gains for eighth-graders in general remain stubbornly elusive...
Miller and Kennedy hope to pass a new and improved version of the law by year's end. If that doesn't happen, the current law--with all its flaws--will remain in force, probably until a new Administration tackles the matter...