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Paige, 67, is widely credited with turning around the Houston schools through an emphasis on accountability and efficiency and a receptiveness to new ideas. But he got off to a bumpy start. When the school board chose him as superintendent in 1994, during a closed-door session, the reaction of...
The debate over America's war on drugs touches on nearly every hot button issue facing the country: Racism, sexism and class warfare all play their own critical roles in defining and further electrifying what has never been a simple exchange. In the past decade, an uproar has grown over...
Lionel Sosa served as a media consultant for the Bush-Cheney 2000 Campaign. Having focused in the past on Hispanic media relations and education, Sosa will lead a group devoted to studying minority student groups and their achievement.
Sosa, who plans to return to Texas at the end of the semester, views his fellowship here as more than a simple discussion. Texas has the biggest challenge in terms of minority education, since the state will be two-thirds minority by 2020, and the drop-out rate for Hispanic...
But Paige is not without his critics. Some say the Houston district's gains on statewide tests have been boosted by an abysmal dropout rate, as underperforming students, under constant pressure, simply give up. A report published last month by Johns Hopkins University ranked Houston 28th in school completion out...