Word: edisons
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...decision to transfer control of 42 public schools to private organizations is the wrong remedy and threatens the mission of public education. The plan, approved last week by a bitterly divided Pennsylvania School Reform Commission, places 20 formerly-public schools under the power of the for-profit corporation Edison Schools Inc., five under the control of Temple University, three under the University of Pennsylvania and the remainder under four lesser-known organizations. These firms will exercise full control of school budgets and will likely have unchecked power in hiring and firing decisions...
Introducing profit-motive into public education by transferring control to corporations like Edison Schools, Inc. threatens to further dilute community power. Decisions by such companies must weigh community input against not only educational goals and budget constraints—as school boards, nonprofit firms and universities would—but also against the impact on its own bottom line. Sometimes that interest runs counter to the quality of education students receive. For example, more costly programs like performing arts do not produce the kind of higher test schools that help for-profit firms sell their product to other districts...
Danny Devito, Jon Bon Jovi, Calista Flockhart, Bruce Springsteen, Jason Alexander, James Gandolfini, Lauryn Hill (and the other two Fugees) and Thomas Edison are just a few of the notable natives who have made New Jersey the birthplace of fame itself...
...Kamen's personality is half Willy Wonka, the other half is closer to Thomas Edison. While he was still struggling in college, Kamen invented the first drug-infusion pump, which enabled doctors to deliver steady, reliable doses to patients. In the years that followed, he invented the first portable insulin pump, the first portable dialysis machine and an array of heart stents, one of which now resides inside Vice President Dick Cheney. This string of successes established Kamen's reputation, made him wealthy and turned DEKA Research--the R.-and-D. lab he founded nearly 20 years ago, in which...
...exit polls by Edison Media Research, a quarter of those surveyed said Rudy's recommendation had influenced them to back Bloomberg. Voters who had made up their minds in the last week went 3 to 2 for Bloomberg. They were looking for guidance about who should lead them through perilous times--with downtown still smoldering, the largest budget deficits in city history looming and some 100,000 people unemployed as a result of the attack--and there seemed no better counselor than the man who'd been leading them so well. A city where Democrats outnumber Republicans...