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...either way, what you're left with is a prime-time TV show about topical concerns, at a time when people would like to see some humility in our CEOs; a show, like Discovery's Dirty Jobs, about toilet cleaners and garbage pickers and other people that "quality TV" rarely takes notice of; a show, at heart, about how absolutely crazy-hard ordinary people work...
...delivered on time. If this sounds like an entirely different school, that's because it basically is. In fall 2006, the School District of Philadelphia gave the building over to Mastery, a local operator of charter schools - that is, ones that are publicly funded but privately managed. The adults left, the kids remained, and the once failing school has been turned around...
...known for a long time that there are too many bad schools in the U.S., dropout factories that shove barely literate children through the system. Because of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) - the George W. Bush - era education law that forces every school to report whether it makes "adequate yearly progress" toward nationwide math- and reading-proficiency standards - we can now point to exactly which schools are the lowest performing and the least improving. With that information in hand, the question becomes, Well, what do we do about it? (See TIME's special report on paying for college...
...largely unsuccessful. An October 2009 study by the University of Chicago's Consortium on Chicago School Research concluded that most students from shuttered schools did not see any improvement in education quality, mainly because they ended up at schools that were as bad as the ones they had just left. Several turnarounds - same kids, new adults - did show noticeable gains, however, according to a recent Chicago Tribune analysis of city schools. But on the whole, the experiment was a mixed...
...time I left Haiti, my belt was two notches tighter. But I wouldn't recommend the cookies as a weight-loss regimen. For starters, they taste like cardboard. Literally. Even Nicole Menage, the WFP procurement director, admitted that the cookies are "probably not extremely delicious." I had been especially unlucky in that my batch was made in Ecuador. Menage said the next Haiti-bound shipment would be coming from Turkey and have a bit more flavor. Alas, it's vanilla...