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...throws good parties," says Bradley H. Boyer '87, another roommate, adding. "He knows so much about computers that he helps me when I need it in CS II (an introductory computer class...
...School is in a very real sense a mirror of its community," Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation told Time Magazine. "Time and time again, we saw that community support or community conditions were shaping the school. So, in a very real sense, the report card on the school is a report card on the nation." To change many of those low passes to A's, we need a better institution for funneling community support into the schools...
...that public education has failed. After spending a total of 30 months com piling observations of high schools across the nation, the report's author concluded that the best American high schools, which educate 10% to 15% of all students, are the world's finest. Says Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation and former U.S. Commissioner of Education under Jimmy Carter: "School is in a very real sense a mirror of its community. Tune and time again, we saw that community support or community conditions were shaping the school. So, in a very real sense, the report...
While the suburban schools got lots of credit for innovation and honors programs two decades ago, urban schools now appear to be on the cutting edge of reform. One reason, says Carnegie's Boyer, may be that many parents in ghetto areas fight fiercely for better schools for their children. The Council of the Great City Schools, a coalition of 30 of the nation's largest urban school systems, reports that 27 of these predominantly minority systems have had increases in elementary school reading and mathematics test scores during the past five years...
...Titled High School: a Report on Secondary Education in America, it was produced over a period of 30 months by a team of 23 educators and trained observers who spent 2,000 hours examining 15 representative high schools and interviewing teachers, principals and students. Carnegie President Ernest Boyer, former U.S. Commissioner of Education under President Jimmy Carter, collected their journals and wrote the final account, which is being published this month by Harper & Row. Says Boyer: "This report on the American high school begins with the conviction that the time for renewing education has arrived. If we do not seize...