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...Maxean Bowen, a single mother raising an 11-year-old daughter. A social worker in the foster-care system in New York City, Bowen helped rehabilitate parents with substance-abuse problems. In 1998 she developed a painful condition in both feet that made it difficult for her to walk. Because her job required her to make house calls, she had to give it up and go on unemployment, hoping the condition would ease up. Her take-home pay dropped from about $1,600 a month to $800. To get by, she borrowed from relatives and started using credit cards...
...drill is exacting. At Anthony Bowen School in Washington, a dervish of a teacher named Nadine Broadus begins a reading lesson by tapping the classroom's "word wall" with a baton. "Clock. Hiccup. Clapping," chirps a staccato chorus of first-graders. Lest she get sidetracked, a kitchen timer cues her to move on after one minute. Broadus, a phys.-ed. teacher for 29 years, had no training in reading instruction prior to Success for All. "I had no background," she laughs. "And with this program, I had no choice." The rigor apparently pays off at test time. In a three...
...weeks ago, Bollinger and William Bowen, co-author of The Shape of the River, an influential book about affirmative action on campus, briefed Ford about Michigan's affirmative-action procedures, which have been reviewed to ensure that they comply with Supreme Court rulings. For example, Michigan's law school does not set numerical targets for minority students. Instead, in addition to grades and test scores, it relies heavily on letters of recommendation, the applicant's essay and evidence of leadership ability. The number of minority students who enter the law school varies greatly from year to year. Surveys show there...
...dean of the college at Princeton, Rudenstineserved under his mentor William Bowen, who wasthen president. According to Rudenstine, Bowentaught him the methods of "collaborativeadministration...
...Keller says, "Bowen's style didn't workvery well at Harvard--Rudenstine landed onNormandy beach and he didn't know what...