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...Mary Jo Bane, associate professor of education and public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, was named yesterday as one of seven semi-finalists being considered to fill an opening as Massachusetts Commissioner of Education, the state Board of Education announced yesterday...
...Bane, who last January became the first woman associate professor at the K-School, served as deputy assistant secretary of the Department of Education in the Carter Administration. She said yesterday that she was pleased and honored by the board's decision, but refused to say whether she would take the job if it were offered...
...Bane said she did not apply for the post, but was nominated by a search committee. She added that she has yet to make up her mind as to whether she would accept the post if selected, but added that no matter what, "I have responsibilities to the Kennedy School this term...
...hard core of aides and Cabinet officers who surround him, Reagan would be helpless. But he must know that, because the Meeses and Bakers and Deavers and Stockmans and Gergens and Regans and Weinbergers are in place and in tune. The structure and function of this group are the bane of scholars who wrote that such personal Government would not work. It works for Reagan, who in meeting after meeting serves no other purpose than to push his reluctant Government...
...learn about the pupils, counselors interview them apart from parents. They often give achievement and psychological tests as well. After several visits, counselors suggest four or five schools that might be helpful. A small, not-too-competitive school for a middling athlete, for example. And for that bane of parents and teachers alike, the high-IQ underachiever, a school with strong discipline and a challenging academic program. The counselors often telephone a school, describe the student and ask whether he or she sounds desirable enough to justify formal application. "We try to be a strainer," says Parsons, adding: "Year after...