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...Peter Boyer's version of the same period, Who Killed CBS? (Random House, $18.95), is a more balanced and skillfully written account. Boyer, who spent ten months as media critic for the CBS Morning News in 1985, is now TV reporter for the New York Times. One subject on which he is better, oddly, is Ed Joyce. Boyer lucidly describes the missteps that caused Joyce to fall into disfavor with his staff. Soon after becoming news president, for instance, Joyce tried unsuccessfully to move Sandy Socolow, the respected former executive producer of the CBS Evening News, from the London bureau...
...about tighter graduation requirements and stricter teacher standards backed by better pay. But most of the progress has come in affluent areas, where students are best equipped to respond to increased demands. "The reform movement has been most successful with those students who need it the least," says Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. For inner-city students there has been little change. "Reforms were aimed at middle-class schools," notes Gary Orfield, an urban-education expert at the University of Chicago. "They didn't really address low-income schools...
...have to give kids something that inspires them," says Chicago Alderman Edwin Eisendrath, a former teacher. Imposing tighter standards without remedial help can backfire. Says Boyer: "It's like raising the hurdles and not giving students extra coaching when they were already tripping...
...CURE (Chicagoans United to Reform Education), comes from a grass-roots movement. "We will place authority and responsibility with the people who are closest to the children," explains Renee Montoya of Designs for Change, a child-advocacy group that is helping to lead the way. Efforts like these, says Boyer, constitute a "new agenda," a critical second wave that may succeed where the earlier, top-down reform movement failed. If so, perhaps at last the tidal wave of mediocrity will subside...
...music is still as strong, with the unique horn-playing of Eric Leeds and Atlanta Bliss leading the way. Sheila E. is a percussion virtuoso and even gets a few minutes to rev up the crowd by herself. Of course, she succeeds. And keyboardist/vocalist Boni Boyer gives a terrific performance, adding great gospel sound to "Forever In My Life...