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Keep the Kids; Bring In New Adults All that said, few would argue with the proposition that radical steps are needed to fix the country's public schools. Champions of the turnaround approach say that where it has been applied properly, the early results are encouraging. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has cited Mastery Charter Schools as a shining example of how to right a capsized ship. So far, Mastery has used the same approach at each of the three schools it has taken over from the School District of Philadelphia since 2006: retain the students, spiff up the place...
What is the best approach, if there is one, for resolving the "too big to fail" issue? -Lawrence Lin, Taipei If I could boil it down to one recommendation, it is that we need strong resolution authority so that any failing institution can be liquidated in a way that does not damage the financial system overall. Then taxpayers will never again have to come in and provide a bailout...
...whole crime picture of the county. I can shift resources. It actually provides me with the trends, patterns that have occurred the previous week, previous day, maybe even the previous year." Paired with a program to improve trust and communication between police and crime-plagued communities, the data-driven approach is working, Hylton says...
...satellite television, with its constant diet of ads and Bollywood, has fueled the hairstyling market. "In Delhi, people will just come to my salon asking for a cut that suits them," he says. "In Aligarh, they'll come asking to look like [Bollywood superstar] Shah Rukh Khan." The approach chimes with the findings of The Dhoni Effect, a 2008 report from consultants Ernst & Young. Named after Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, a small-town boy made great, the report found that India's provincial consumers were increasing in importance, thanks to growing aspirations and incomes. "Earlier, it was just...
...Gressly, the U.N.'s regional coordinator for southern Sudan, reckons that it will take billions more dollars in aid and another "10 to 15 to 20 years" of international assistance to get the place on its feet. But after more than half a century of suffering in Sudan, the approach of two votes is achieving far more than sanctions, peacekeepers, the ICC or George Clooney. That's a boost for democracy in a continent that could sorely use some more...