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...responded immediately, agreeing to attend the festival. Later, she explained why she felt the festival was such an important event to support...
Although Cantor grew up in Great Neck, where almost all children attend public schools, his mother insisted that he enroll at Horace Mann in New York City. “I think my mother had read somewhere in the Talmud that there must always be a better school somewhere,” he explains...
...exist as the national means of assessing academic performance in schools. From California to Maine, Wisconsin to Alaska, all states are required to set standards within the core academic areas and then test their students in alignment with these standards. In schools with unsatisfactory scores, students may opt to attend other schools within the area; in schools with adequate scores, high-scoring students may receive award money. Given these outcomes, the standardized tests are not just for assessment purposes. More correctly, they operate as high-stakes mechanisms of punishment and reward, for schools that fail or succeed according...
...Behind provision allows students to leave their failing schools. But often, failing schools are grouped together geographically, which prevents students from moving to successful schools as they are too far away. But even if a student can move to a local successful school, the number of students who can attend this school is limited. These problems impose substantial enough restrictions to invalidate the theoretical free-market efficiencies on which Bush based his education policy...
...year, that Jordan had never had to work and that he had paid for all of Jordan’s education. After Jordan graduated first in his class from Georgetown, he received a full scholarship to NYU, but Goldstein offered to pay his entire tuition so that he could attend Harvard. “I was very supportive,” says Goldstein, “I was very proud...