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...relatively easy. Schools are supposed to be places where parents entrust officials to oversee the development and education of their children, not pen them in. Traditionally, openness is unfettered by fear of physical or emotional violence. Turning our schools into armed fortresses would be counterproductive, unrealistic and, for the vast majority of our children, entirely unnecessary...
...found flawed, drown in a sea of anonymity. Such a system, proponents argue, would free science from the trammels of communication that currently retard its process. Chris Surridge, PLoS ONE’s managing editor recently told the Associated Press, “If we publish a vast number of papers, some of which are mediocre and some of which are stellar, Nobel Prize-winning work—I will be happy.” And therein lies the problem. Without a peer review process to separate the revolutionary papers from the merely good from the rubbish, scientists will have...
...report acknowledges that the vast majority of Harvard students will pursue professional, not academic, careers, and criticizes the Core for grounding general education in disciplinary approaches to knowledge...
...From the vast physical size of the projects to the amount of public scrutiny she will likely face, the similarities between memorializing Ground Zero and redeveloping University City are numerous, said Anne Papageorge, who starts at Penn...
...compare financial aid packages. We also maintain that early admissions programs at elite colleges are unlikely to reduce stress, as Etchemendy suggests. While the small majority of overqualified applicants with clear-cut first choice schools will indeed feel more secure with an admissions offer in hand come December, the vast majority of early applicants to Harvard, Stanford, and peer institutions are not admitted. Having a rejection or deferral hanging over their heads for four months before any positive news can mitigate the bad hardly contributes to less chaos during senior year. Stress for everyone is lessened and—more...