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...Monday's meeting sent Harvard representatives back to the University to research the number of foreign dignitaries who might be expected to visit and the exact uses planned for the large classroom within the center...
...looks like a typical high school classroom, but the question Ronald Quartimon poses to his African-American students at Bedford Stuyvesant Outreach, an alternative high school in Brooklyn, N.Y., isn't about the Civil War or Shakespeare's sonnets. He wants to know how many of them have ever been stopped by the police. Six hands shoot up. "Usually," says a student, "they just come out right off the bat and ask you, 'Do you have any drugs?'" The comment is a typical one for the 10-session course called Conflicts with Cops, run by the Harlem-based Neighborhood Defender...
Teachers complain that constant standardized testing kills classroom creativity by forcing them to teach for the tests alone. And education wonks see other problems with the Bush plan. If Gore throws money at the problem without demanding accountability, Bush demands accountability without throwing enough money. As Gore argued last week, Bush's proposed tax cut is so expensive--between $1.3 trillion and $2.1 trillion over 10 years, depending on whose analysis you believe--that it would exceed the projected surplus, leaving nothing for anything else. Blithely ignoring that problem, Bush proposes a five-year, $5.5 billion spending increase for education...
Cranley's exuberance in the classroom was palpable, according to his former students, and his deep commitment to social justice was the driving force in his life...
Whittle has been criticized as a sort of Music Man of Education Inc. Previously, he started an advertiser-sponsored classroom TV news program, Channel One, which was castigated for its mercenary approach. Whittle sold Channel One to Primedia in 1994. The for-profit school idea is less corporately tainted--it's not brought to you by Coke...