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Decades of research show that two main factors result in better educational outcomes for poor and minority children: intensive, individualized early preschooling and small elementary-school classes. Yet for the past decade, the focus has been entirely on teacher quality. Why? It's cheaper and more palatable politically. Of course, it's better to have a good teacher than a poor one. But if you put the best teacher in a rundown school with a class of 35 students, most of them below grade level and some with developmental and discipline problems, that teacher is not likely to be able...
...Vertical farming could allow food to be grown locally and sustainably," says Glen Kertz, CEO of Valcent, a tech company based in El Paso, Texas, that's trying out the process. His firm uses hydroponic greenhouse methods to grow upward rather than out. The result saves space--vital in urban areas--and allows farmers to irrigate and fertilize with far less waste...
...report comes at an inauspicious time for University budgets, now feeling the effects of the worst financial crisis in decades, and some of the report’s more ambitious proposals will likely have to wait as a result...
Because non-profits are exempt from paying property taxes, their financial contributions to the city—known as payments in lieu of taxes, or PILOTs—are voluntarily negotiated, and as a result, lack standardized guidelines...
...result of the financial crisis, Ellwood said, the school anticipates a sharp rise in domestic applications for next year, citing an 80 percent increase in applications for the Kennedy School’s joint degree program with the Harvard Business School as an early indication...