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Teachers, meanwhile, added three to four hours to their workweeks, including two additional hours of training. The curriculum was standardized and shaped around the testing schedule. "We were amazed when we aligned our math curriculum--amazed at the things we weren't teaching prior to the test," says Jan Collinson, Franklin's principal since 2002. She also went after the no-show students. After three absences, parents began receiving letters. For kids with perfect attendance, there were parties every six weeks, featuring praise, cookies and the occasional magician...
...helpers, who earn about $5 per hour, although that's down from approximately $8 per hour a few months ago. "These are the people with the least amount of power and the lowest pay in society: maintaining their pay is the humane thing to do," says Maria Zeneida Angara-Collinson, Philippine Consul-General in Hong Kong. "If the government is looking at this as a way out of the economic slump, it's not going to make a dent...
Ominously, bright young scholars are not coming into the system: in all of Britain, only six university historians are under 30. "It's a failure to recruit a whole generation or two of talent," says Patrick Collinson, professor of modern history at the University of Sheffield. "And those generations will have been lost...
...Benjamin Biaggini, H&R Block's Henry Bloch, Union Oil's Fred Hartley, Citicorp's Walter Wriston, Quaker Oats' Robert Stuart Jr., FMC Corp.'s Robert Malott, Borg-Warner's James F. Berg, Broyhill Furniture's Paul Broyhill, Textron's Joseph Collinson. Add to them presidents (Boeing Commercial Airplane's E.H. Boullioun, Occidental Petroleum's Joseph Baird) and former chief executives (AT&T's John deButts, Marriott's J. Willard Marriott, Texas Instruments' J. Erik Jonsson, General Foods' C.W. Cook, American Airlines' C.R. Smith...
...Peter Collinson...