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Education begins in the classroom, but schools need an entire community--students, teachers, parents, local businesses and neighbors--to work together to help children succeed. Most of all, schools need a leader, and that is why in New York City, one of the cornerstones of school reform has been a training program for a new generation of principals. It is called the NYC Leadership Academy, and its first graduates are now leading some of the city's most challenging schools...
...report paints a sobering picture of Harvard’s current teaching culture, in which effective classroom guidance is considered a matter of “individual talent, choice, or valor,” not something FAS sufficiently acknowledges or rewards...
...Concluding in turn that many faculty are not really interested in them, too many of our undergraduates take a passive stance toward the classroom and turn their passions toward extracurricular pursuits,” the report reads...
...report also rejects the idea that Harvard teaching could be improved by creating a “dual tenure-track system” in which some faculty are appointed for research achievements and others for classroom ability...
...last year Musgrave taught at Harvard—Poterba audited Musgrave’s graduate course, co-taught with Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein ’61.“He didn’t just study the tax system or government policies in an abstract classroom, or in a theoretical way. He studied these questions because he believed they were incredibly important in making the lives of individual citizens better,” Poterba said.The ground-breaking “Musgrave trichotomy” identified three separate roles of government—redistributing income, allocating resources...