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...laboratories will ultimately touch public schools in every corner of the U.S., offering examples to emulate or mistakes to avoid. As the experiment begins, TIME is following three individuals with a direct stake in the outcome: fifth-grade teacher Blakney, elementary-school principal Anita Duke andseventh-grade student Shaliah Denmark. All three will experience what happens when private hands buy the books, train the teachers and set the priorities. Each has her own degree of optimism about the promised reforms. TIME will return to them later in the school year for a report card on how those changes--and their...
While policymakers and administrators will view success in Philadelphia largely in terms of scores, the families in the schools will grade it by their own standards. Tanya Denmark, who is sending her third child through Shoemaker Middle School in West Philadelphia, regularly attends parent meetings, often checks in with teachers and enforces strict rules at home about homework and uniforms. With her daughter Shaliah, 12, about to enter seventh grade, Denmark closely followed news reports on Chancellor Beacon Academies, the private company designated to take over her neighborhood school. Shaliah had been attending a charter school that Denmark says turned...
...course, is that Chancellor Beacon's efforts will translate into academic gains for Shaliah, a bubbly Bs-and-Cs student, as well as for the Shoemaker pupils performing below grade level, whom Chancellor Beacon plans to target aggressively with personalized assignments and weekly monitoring of classwork and homework. The Denmarks like this cautious approach but also have some immediate concerns. Mom Tanya wants new textbooks; the ones Shaliah has are torn and marked up, and she's stillwaiting for a science book. Denmark would also like to see the discipline code strictly enforced in the sprawling, sometimes rowdy, four-story...
...Europe," he insists, before walking down a quiet street (only a few people have bothered to ask him about Nice, as it turns out, and most of them are reporters). He boards an open-topped double-decker bus full of like-minded activists from Estonia, Finland, Denmark and Slovenia - a sign on the side calls it the speak-up-for-small-nations democracy tour. Until Saturday's vote, the tour will be zooming around Ireland - which happens to be the biggest net beneficiary of E.U. subsidies - trying to convince its voters to make the E.U. harder for other small nations...
...firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges, there were just 10 codes of corporate governance in E.U. nations in 1997, six of which were issued in Britain. By the beginning of this year there were 35. National practices and legislation still vary widely, however. Among the biggest differences: firms in Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands and Austria have two separate boards - one for day-to-day management and the other, which by law includes employee representatives, for oversight. The U.K., with its freewheeling capitalist culture and well-established stock market, is in many respects closer to the U.S. than to its Continental neighbors, where...