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Rhee has promised to make Washington the highest-performing urban school district in the nation, a prospect that, if realized, could transform the way schools across the country are run. She is attempting to do this through a relentless focus on finding--and rewarding--strong teachers, purging incompetent ones and weakening the tenure system that keeps bad teachers in the classroom. This fall, Rhee was asked to meet with both presidential campaigns to discuss school reform. In the last debate, each candidate tried to claim her as his own, with Barack Obama calling her a "wonderful new superintendent...
Rhee is convinced that the answer to the U.S.'s education catastrophe is talent, in the form of outstanding teachers and principals. She wants to make Washington teachers the highest paid in the country, and in exchange she wants to get rid of the weakest teachers. Where she and the teachers' union disagree most is on her ability to measure the quality of teachers. Like about half the states, Washington is now tracking whether students' test scores improve over time under a given teacher. Rhee wants to use that data to decide who gets paid more--and, in combination with...
...Lawrence H. Summers will serve as NEC chief; and Congressional Budget Office director Peter R. Orszag will direct the Office of Manamgent and Budget. All three have close ties to former Treasury secretary Robert E. Rubin, an executive at Citigroup and a member of the University’s highest governing board, the Harvard Corporation. University spokesman John D. Longbrake declined to comment on the decision, as tenure cases are confidential. In selecting candidates for tenured positions at Harvard, department members form a committee to discuss the case and make a recommendation, which is then presented to University President Drew...
...Although there are currently more men than women enrolled in the graduate program for physics, 137 compared to 56, Ferguson said that the department has seen a dramatic rise in the female enrollment compared to other departments. American institutions awarded over 48,000 doctorates last year—the highest number in history and the fifth annual increase in doctorates awarded. The number of doctorates awarded to minorities grew by about 20 percent over the past five years, compared to about 5 percent for white students. Asian women in particular make up the fastest growing segment of minority doctorates recipients...
...He’s had a tremendous commitment to the community to bring the highest quality—authors and events—to the store,” says Denise A. Jillson, executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association. “I can’t say enough about the family—it’s been so beloved and so respected...