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...first place: too many schools were shamelessly letting poor and minority kids fall behind. "Some of these schools haven't been performing for 15 to 20 years, but it was one of the best-kept secrets in most communities," says House Democrat George Miller of California, who helped write No Child. The smartest thing the law does is to require schools to separate out the scores of at-risk children instead of lumping all kids together for a sunnier average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Revolt Over Bush's School Rules | 5/2/2005 | See Source »

...It takes guts to write more poems about peace, war, God and children, but Revell's are so fresh, it's as if he's the first person ever to do it. He makes you feel how painfully near grace and redemption are at all times, and yet how unattainable. "If you know the taste of your own heart and like it," he writes, "Come into the woods to the red house/ Whose windows explode from the walls and wash/ Me clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poetry: 7 Books of Poetry Worth Curling Up With | 5/1/2005 | See Source »

...faculty members. Rather, they are the province of graduate students and young academics. By contrast, the curricular review seeks to make general the connections between diverse disciplines. This would mean encouraging professors to create courses that draw on a variety of academic traditions and to guide their students to write senior theses that refuse to conform to one category of scholarship. Yet it seems clear that this cannot happen if professors themselves do not start to think more flexibly about what it means to be trained in a special field. As long as there is limited faculty interest in cross...

Author: By Alexander Bevilacqua and Sophie Gonick, S | Title: Erasing Boundaries | 4/28/2005 | See Source »

...thought a good way to figure out why was to write it out. I e-mailed Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 with questions, telling him I was a senior conflicted about whether or not to give and that I was writing a story to work through the decision...

Author: By David B. Rochelson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Giving Me? | 4/28/2005 | See Source »

Swartz found that agents should be created in a way that leaves users feeling “in control” of their computer program and should follow “human rules of etiquette.” Clippy does neither. Its main fault, Swartz writes in his paper, is the pro-active letter-writing feature, which annoys users like Bo Meng ’06, who says he “learned how to write letters in grade...

Author: By Andrea M. Mayrose, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: What Not to Do With a Paper Clip | 4/28/2005 | See Source »

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