GLOBE EDUCATION NEWS
Charter schools gain edge from hours, says study
Students at Boston charter schools appear to have an academic edge over their peers at the city’s traditional schools because of the additional time they spend in school each year, according to a report being released today. (By James Vaznis, Globe Staff)
Stanford team wins MIT clean energy contest
A four-member team from Stanford University that created a film coating for electronic screens won a $200,000 grant and first prize yesterday in MIT’s third Clean Energy Entrepreneurship competition. (By Gal Tziperman Lotan, Globe Correspondent)
In Kagan stance on military, a complex history
As dean of Harvard Law School, Elena Kagan sent an e-mail to students each fall criticizing the military’s ban against gays and lesbians serving openly as “wrong — both unwise and unjust.’’ (By Tracy Jan and Mark Arsenault, Globe Staff)
UMass Lowell bypassed bidding laws, SJC rules
The state’s high court said yesterday that the University of Massachusetts Lowell wrongly bypassed state bidding laws when it cut a deal with a private developer to build a dormitory the school would then lease. (By John R. Ellement, Globe Staff)
Boy, 14, wrote of cost of violence
Last year in class, Jaewon Martin and his fellow seventh-graders began discussing the violence that often tears apart their neighborhoods and takes their friends’ lives.(By Maria Cramer, Globe Staff)
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