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...White House's new approach amounts to Extreme Makeover: School Edition. Fire the teachers and principals, turn schools into charters, lengthen the day and year, or shut the schools down completely and send the kids elsewhere. These so-called turnaround strategies - which aim to increase test scores, decrease dropout rates and improve classroom culture in short order - are perhaps the most ambitious part of President Obama's education-reform agenda. But it's a high-risk intervention. "This is like telling doctors to pick patients with the most advanced forms of cancer and make them better," says Jack Jennings, president...
...last year, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist known by his superiors to have job-performance problems and by others in the government to have Islamist sympathies, opened fire at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 13 people and wounding 43 more before he was subdued. Defense Secretary Robert Gates quickly ordered a blue-ribbon panel to conduct an investigation into how such an atrocity could occur. Gates emphasized the importance of accountability. "One of the core functions of leadership is assessing the performance and fitness of people honestly and openly," he said. "Failure to do so ... may lead to damaging...
...that intangible fire in her belly to win and an exemplary compassion,” said Katey Stone, Harvard’s head women’s ice hockey coach...
...less than 24 hours after falling two games behind the Big Red in the Ancient Eight standings, the Crimson (18-6, 7-3 Ivy) caught fire in Saturday night’s matchup, exploding to a 77-57 victory over Columbia (9-15, 3-7) at Lavietes Pavilion behind 50-percent shooting from the floor and a career-high 23 points from sophomore point guard Oliver McNally...
...gives the team a lot of intensity and a lot of fire,” Buesser said...