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Experts point to Atlanta; Charlotte, N.C.; and Denver as big-city school districts that have rebounded in the hands of strong managers. Detroit presents a very different situation. The tax base is nearly gone. Poverty and unemployment are far more pervasive than in most other major American cities. Many adults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Robert Bobb Fix Detroit's Public Schools? | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

Bobb knows from experience that he is fighting an unconventional war. Born in New Orleans, he grew up mainly on a southwest Louisiana sugarcane plantation, where his grandmother worked as a maid. During summers, he worked in sulfur pits; to cover tuition at Grambling State University, he buffed floors. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Robert Bobb Fix Detroit's Public Schools? | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

Having said that, we've still lost 7 million jobs over the last two years. People who are out of work or have seen their 401(k)s diminish or their hours reduced understandably are frustrated when they see big banks getting money for a problem that they helped cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Obama on His First Year in Office | 1/21/2010 | See Source »

But it's impossible to avoid. It's impossible to avoid if you're trying to do big stuff. Now it is even more difficult in a 24-hour news cycle. I have no idea what Lyndon Johnson had to do to get the Civil Rights Act done. Or if...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Obama on His First Year in Office | 1/21/2010 | See Source »

Brown's victory - some called it "the Scott heard round the world" - on the eve of the first anniversary of Barack Obama's Inauguration was an ominous sign for Democrats for the midterm elections ahead and a potentially crippling blow to Obama's entire agenda. Brown ran explicitly on a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mass Mutiny: How Scott Brown Shook the Political World | 1/21/2010 | See Source »

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