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...council last night continued its discussions on a city budget for the next fiscal year. Department head after department head appeared to answer questions, most of which concerned how they would cope with the 25-per-cent, across-the-board cuts in spending mandated for them by the city manager...
Ylvisaker also defends the Ed School by pointing out its record on the enrollment and hiring of women and minorities. This year more than half of the student body is female, and minorities account for 18 per cent. At the Business School, by comparison, women comprise 25 per cent of the student body and minorities 9 per cent. Ylvisaker boasts that the hiring record of women and minority professors is also a "hell of a lot better than the rest of the University." The Ed School has six women and minority tenured professors, compared with four at the Law school...
...schools, administrators acknowledge that a large number of people have doubts about public education. As part of a recent series about public education in Newsweek, a'Gallup poll showed that almost half of the respondents thought public schools were doing only a fair or poor job. Fifty-nine per cent said teachers should be better trained. But in the first sentence of its article. Newsweek acknowledged that "the odd thing is that the public schools are probably getting better...
Students, faculty and administrators at the Ed School say the Newsweek articles underscored the problems the public has distinguishing between their perceptions of public schools and the reality of public schooling. "It's a perception that schools are in trouble," Ylvisaker says. "Twenty-five per cent or less have kids in school, and those who have an interest in schools are not politically powerful...
Researchers at the Medical School and the Children's Hospital Medical Center last week announced that they had perfected a method for inducing bone growth by using crushed cadaver bones instead of bones removed from patients' bodies. Osteoinduction--the name of the new process--should be 100-per-cent effective, compared to grafting's success rate of 65 per cent, Julie Glowacki, head of the research team that developed the new process and an associate in surgery at the Med School, said last week. Using the new process, doctors implant demineralized bone matter into the site where bone growth...