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In order to make education truly equitable, we will have to make some people angry. First, we have to take away the veto power of teachers' unions over educational reforms. We need to make teaching the domain of those who have demonstrated competence and ability to teach, not those who...
But what I quickly discovered was that my time at the Summer School was valuable in itself, apart from any escape or credential-building value.
One problem with carrying out the Carnegie proposals is that they will require a corps of instructors specialized in teaching early adolescents. But only 23 states offer a credential for teaching in the middle grades. Those on the front lines "will need help and training," says Chester Finn, former Assistant...
Yet, like any press credential, the cards also pose a potential threat to press freedom: if their use becomes required, they could become de facto licenses that would give the A.J.A. the power to determine who can report in the occupied territories. Until some foreign reporters complained recently, Israeli citizens...
Born in Brooklyn to Russian immigrants, Geffen showed no taste for academics. At New Utrecht High School, where his senior yearbook predicted he would be a dentist, Geffen finished in the bottom tenth of his class. But he was inspired by business, an interest nurtured partly by his mother's...