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...There’s tons of crap out there if you haven’t noticed. The magazines that people don’t care about are dying, and that’s a good thing I think.” Schenk defined a “great magazine” as one that engages different senses, praising Vanity Fair, The Economist, and New York Magazine for their ability to do so. “When I looked at a recent Vanity Fair cover, I could almost feel the fabric that was draped over the woman’s shoulders...
...stripping down and starting over. A platoon of TIME reporters and pollsters fanned out to every corner of the country to measure - anecdotally and empirically - what's changed in the way we set our priorities and spend our money since the Great Recession began. Most people think the pain will be lasting and the effects permanent: only 12% expect economic recovery to begin within six months, half believe it will be another year or two, and 14% believe we are at the start of a long-term decline. (See TIME's special report on how Americans have adjusted...
...need to have a really high bar about whom you let open the charter school. [You need] a really rigorous front-end competitive process. If not, you just get mediocrity. Once you let them in, you need to have two things. You need to give those charter operators great autonomy - to really free them from the education bureaucracy. You have to couple that with very strong accountability...
...have tenure? What you need is a really clear bar as to what it takes to achieve [tenure]. And what it should be is not automatic. It shouldn't be one year, two years and you get tenure. What have you done to demonstrate that you've done a great job in increasing student achievement...
...economy, the economy, the economy, and the other things that he's putting on the front burner, like health care or education, should be on the back. This is where, I think, the President's instincts are absolutely right, that the way we're going to create a great economy and a strong country and a vibrant democracy is by better educating all of our children. And this is a cliché, but if you think education is expensive, try ignorance...