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...spend hours pleading with staff who felt kids should learn for the love of learning - not for the cash. "To this day, I can't tell you what will predict one or the other," he says. "I could walk into a completely failing school, with crack vials on the ground outside, and say, 'Hey, I went to a school like this, and I want to help.' And people would just browbeat me about 'the love of learning,' and I would be like, 'But I just stepped on crack vials out there! There are fights in the hallways! We're beyond...
...Scott Brown’s election didn’t jettison the notion that the Republican electoral ship had sunk after the 2008 election, the current political climate certainly has. Despite their recent legislative victory in the health-care battle, the Democrats still stand to lose significant ground in the midterm elections. Although punishing sitting presidents with Congressional losses is ingrained in the American political tradition, recent polls suggest that voters may put an unusually severe dent in the Democrats’ current congressional majority. As the leader of his party, President Obama must take it upon himself to stop...
...People on the ground level need to not be OK with the status quo if we’re going to institutionalize innovation,” Lomax said. “What I worry about the social innovators is that they’re not deeply rooted in the communities in which they serve...
...We’re on the super ground level all day,” Noonan-Pomada said. “It can feel like you’re doing the work without people at the top championing your cause...