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There are two tangible ways to begin fulfilling your promise to make education a priority: first, remove Chairman of the Board of Education John R. Silber--your de facto governor for education--and replace him with someone committed to public education and willing to conduct honest and open dialogue with education program heads, teacher candidates and concerned citizens. Silber has proven his reluctance to cooperate with his colleagues by refusing to release a copy of the teacher test given last spring or explain how those tests were graded. In addition, his disparaging comments about the intelligence of those candidates...
...Lopez-De-Silanes said he has heard from many people around the world since the report's release Sunday...
...Lopez-De-Silanes maintained the study was "fair" to all governments, despite the fact that nine of the top ten countries are located in Europe or North America and seven of the ten worst countries are African nations...
...final lesson of the research," Lopez-De-Silanes said, "is that economic and cultural factors do not doom a country to have bad government forever...
...impact this has had, we have already received calls from many countries--France, Canada, New Zealand, etc.," Lopez-De-Silanes said