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...that are responsive to different students’ needs. One suggestion that reaches outside of the classroom is encouraging social services agencies to conduct early screenings for disabilities. Due to the increasing belief in critical periods of development, researchers say that early diagnosis—especially with an autism spectrum disorder—is correlated with a better prognosis. An extra burden is placed on schools when children with special needs enter undiagnosed. If parents are informed of their children’s special needs earlier, they can work with the schools to better ensure that their child receives...
...open marketplace of ideas is essential to a healthy learning environment; without this guarantee, students cannot be assured of their intellectual security when confronting potentially controversial issues and ideas. Thanks to Harvard’s strong stance on this issue, student groups from every point on the political spectrum have been able to express their views on the upcoming general election; similarly, student groups with sensitive agendas, including those relating to sexual health, have been able to advertise without fear of administrative repercussions. We are also especially appreciative of Dean Kidd’s efforts to ensure that HRL, like...
Absolutely. For all of our differences on how particular issues should be resolved, activists across the spectrum have more in common with each other than we do with members of the public who don't care about these issues. Take the head of the Christian Coalition's legal arm, Jay Sekulow. He cares passionately about exactly the same issues I care passionately about. Obviously we deeply disagree on abortion and gay rights. But we have strong agreement on freedom of speech and free exercise of religion. The ACLU absolutely defends the free speech rights of anti-abortion protestors...
...discovery could also allow for more efficient solar cells, since using black silicon would allow panels to harness a broader spectrum of light...
...Sittringies and tuckiers for the natives. The baboos puffing at their hubble-bubbles and the sahibs lighting their Sumatra buncuses. Cunchunees whirling and ticky-taw boys beating their tobblers...” And so it goes for an entire page. The jerks from one end of the linguistic spectrum to the other serve no one well, least of all the reader. There are rich possibilities within “Sea of Poppies” that never come to bloom. With such an ambitious reach, Ghosh’s novel ought to make the reader a part of its historical present...