It has the standard feature that allows transfer to a public school other than the one for which a child is zoned. But it adds the wrinkle that children whose education might require more resources bring with them additional district money. The idea is that a school might actively seek students who require special attention in order to get the additional funds. Rothstein argues that the Seattle plan doesn't go far enough. A new private school in Los Angeles works on the premise that it's educating citizens rather than future doctors, lawyers, or other professionals .
Observers say that the school' s approach runs against the grain.
The student president of Penn State's Black Caucus has a university-provided bodyguard because her life has been threatened. Students complain that others have received similar threats and that the university has moved to slowly to respond to them. A Web-based archive of research papers and reports is extending the community of esoteric physics researchers . The archive is based in Los Alamos, but submissions come from all over the world. The article begins with an account of a university student in Prague who received a scholarship to do Ph.D. studies at Rutgers after posting a paper on the archive.