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...system. The bulk of the plan, which looks to overhaul George W. Bush's frequently criticized No Child Left Behind law, advances the bold ideas with which this Administration has already become closely associated. The President wants to link billions of federal dollars to initiatives like ending the achievement gap between white and nonwhite students, evaluating teachers and awarding performance bonuses to principals and teachers who've earned them. On the basis of what we know has worked in New York City with our 1.1 million schoolkids, we'd give Obama's plan a solid B - a great start...
Trying to Close the Budget Gap...
...Ravitch now uses Death and Life to proclaim her ardent opposition to the seemingly unstoppable engine of the education-reform movement, which she believes is too quick to demonize teachers and unions in its attempts to improve the quality of the nation's schools and close the achievement gap. With scathing looks at the influence of private money in public schools and the national obsession with testing over learning, Ravitch's critique is an essential one--passionate, well considered and completely logical...
...Hollis resident says that she knew she wanted to live in the Co-op even before she came to Harvard. Her friend Josh Neff ’07-’08 sang the Co-op’s praises while they were traveling together in India during her gap year...
...editorial comment “Risky Business,” Lea J. Hachigian argues that much of today’s gender gap in salary levels and other areas is the result of “the failure of females to seek out and take necessary risks.” The solution, she argues, is to change our expectations of girls’ behavior in childhood in order to encourage them to grow into brave, risk-taking adult women (who aren’t afraid to ask for a raise). While changing societal expectations about girls’ capabilities...