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An author of Brandon's transformation was Robert Embry, head of the Abell Foundation, which invests $5 million a year in education in Baltimore. Six years ago, Embry canvassed principals of local middle schools to see what they needed most. More computers? New after-school programs? Every principal said the...
Working with the Baltimore schools, Abell came up with an innovative solution: send some of the class cutups and brawlers 6,000 miles away to a school the foundation dubbed Baraka - Swahili for "blessing." So far, the program has accommodated only about 40 students a year, less than 1% of...
O'Brien received some of his biggest applause when he mocked Scott A. Abell '72, the president-elect of the Harvard Alumni Association, who subtly encouraged the graduates to donate in an earlier speech.
A more pernicious effect of the system's culture was its resistance to real, cost-efficient reform, especially when the impetus came from outsiders. When the Calvert School, a costly Baltimore private school, tested its nationally renowned curriculum in one of the city's elementary schools, it produced startling advances...
Proponents say these seminars carry the force of revelation. Attendees have been known to stand and cheer like converts at a tent meeting. But critics, careful always to applaud Efficacy's central objective of raising expectations, wonder whether the $1 million Baltimore spent on the program--equivalent to the starting...