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...Peter Jovanovich, CEO of Pearson Education, concedes that "today's textbooks are too big, both physically and in terms of coverage." Why? Because most of the publishers' customers--especially the states that adopt textbooks for all their school districts--want them that way. Ultimate power is in the hands of these states' textbook-selection committees (especially the ones in Texas, California and Florida). The stakes are huge: the $3.5 billion in annual textbook sales is greater than the sales of all hardcover books to adults. Textbooks are superficial in part because they must conform to state standards, which are often...
...Friends emphasize that in setting education policy, Paige's only ideology is what works. When the typically polarizing debate of how to teach reading arose in Houston, Paige heard out proponents of both camps--"whole language" and phonics--and allowed his district to adopt a combination of the two. "He's quite masterly at bringing all kinds of different perspectives to the table and choosing the best one, no matter where or whom it comes from," says Michael Casserly, executive director of the Council of Great City Schools, an urban-schools coalition that recognized Paige in 1999 with a national...
Neither Harvard nor its students benefit when undergraduates are condemned by the course catalog to vast lecture classes or forced by artifacts of scheduling to courses that they dislike. Harvard can adopt requirements that expose students to varying approaches to knowledge while at the same time guaranteeing them the widest range of choice...
...this really necessary? Probably not, say experts. For while the British were taken by surprise by the appearance of a new disease, and other European nations were slow to adopt strict precautions, Americans have, by a combination of luck and early preventive action, dodged this deadly bullet...
...Voter March: Rallies at Dupont Circle, the Ellipse; urging Congress to adopt campaign-finance reforms, defend against future voting system failures