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...program received little press coverage, it merits a great deal of praise since not all roads should lead to lucrative private sector jobs. Programs like these are an important step towards eliminating a socioeconomic barrier to entry for public service. Significantly, it also incentivizes the best and the brightest to consider non-profit options right out of school...
...fans that Slug spends his days empathizing with homeless people looking at waitresses in cafés, while producer Ant is busy conjuring up ways to work flutes beautifully into hip-hop tunes. But don’t think that Slug’s completely selfless; some of his brightest lines come out when he sings about himself. Fully aware of the relatively late age at which he earned recognition, he told Minneapolis’s City Pages, “You can’t be a 27 year old ‘rapper’ just breaking...
...visit was so great, the response was so warm, it was as though his hosts were trying to raise him up, a Pontiff in many ways still in the shadow of his predecessor, John Paul Superstar. And no one seemed more eager to cast him in the brightest light than his unlikely political partner, George W. Bush...
Such malevolence and contempt is not only unwarranted, it is utterly baseless. The nature of intellectual discovery demands the concentration of society’s brightest minds and best resources. Synergistic cooperation, not fragmentation and isolation, are generative of academic discovery. To assail the Ivies for “stealing” teachers from their more minimally endowed peers is to imply that these professors are the dominion of public universities. Yet, these professors do not belong to public institutions any more than they do to the Ivies. Rather, they choose to teach at Harvards, Yales, and Princetons because...
...this is reflected in the quality of education in those areas. Nor is recruiting an adequate long-term strategy. With a sizeable pool of bilingual Spanish and English speakers in Boston itself, the problem now is more a lack of organization than talent. Efforts to channel the best and brightest native bilingual college students into teaching programs—much like Teach for America does—should be boosted immediately, especially in less wealthy neighborhoods where spending will be most effective. In the interim, however, a generation of kids is falling behind. Public school administrators should be commended...