Word: chubb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...featured programs are booked up for 1997, all promise to inspire. (The subscribed programs' sponsors may have other offerings, and there's always next summer.) We've invited a variety of notables to share their memories of seminal childhood summers--and asked education analyst John E. Chubb to reconsider the Jeffersonian belief in "the inestimable value of the intellectual pleasures," meaning more school time for kids in summer. Happy vacation...
...John E. Chubb is director of curriculum for the Edison Project and nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he authored numerous studies on student achievement...
...There's a weariness with the persistence of the urban problem," says John Chubb, co-author of Politics, Markets & America's Schools, "a feeling that if an alternative really is out there, can it be so terrible to give it a try?" Like passengers on the Titanic who have just heard about a lifeboat raffle, low-income parents are the most excited about vouchers. Average household income for families participating in Cleveland's school-choice program is $6,597. When 6,500 students applied for the 2,000 grants, the city had to distribute them through a lottery. Sister Theresine...
Freid said most of the missing funds were repaid by the Chubb insurance company thanks to a policy she had taken out three years earlier. The District Attorney's office and the insurance agency were both actively pursuing Surette's case, according to Freid...
...rising rebellion. Senior economic advisers led a hushed but urgent campaign to prevent the influential Business Roundtable from endorsing a more modest alternative to the President's 1,300-page plan. White House economics chief Robert Rubin and Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman telephoned insurance-company CEOs at Prudential, Chubb, American International Group and CNA to urge them not to endorse the rival plan, backed by Representative Jim Cooper of Tennessee and Senator John Breaux of Louisiana. But the Administration's pre-emptive strike met with resistance. Late Friday an informal straw poll of the Roundtable's policy committee turned...