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...promising method is Success for All, a tightly scripted reading program that has spread to 1,551 elementary schools in 48 states. The brainchild of husband-and-wife researchers at Johns Hopkins University more than a decade ago, the program aims to get at-risk kids academically up to speed with 90 minutes of daily intensive reading. The founders specify that 80% of a school's teachers must vote to adopt the program by secret ballot. Once they do, Success for All micromanages everything down to telling teachers to write questions for the class on Post-it notes to themselves...
...into the district each year, many of whom are asked to teach subjects for which they were not trained. "As a new teacher, I like it because it does all the brainstorming for you," says Estes. And proponents point to higher test scores in schools that adopt the scripted method. But critics charge that it saps teachers and students of creativity and spontaneity...
...Like many players, my grandparents followed what my high school theology teacher would have called an authoritarian method for picking horses. Before hopping Gus' bus, my grandfather would pay $2 for a handicapping sheet xeroxed on bright orange paper in the cigarette store across Second Avenue from his apartment. This sheet, which was compiled by "Clocker Lawton," tipped three horses in each of Aqueduct's nine races that day. Lawton--the only clue to whose identity was a grainy photograph of a man in a trenchcoat and a wide-brimmed hat, a cross between Elliott Ness and John Wayne, printed...
...fact, though several Massachusetts statutes prohibit corporal punishment in public schools and ban "whipping" as "a method of initiation into any student organization," there appear to be no explicit restrictions on tough bamboo-rod love at universities. To be fair, no higher education institutions in Kenya, South Africa or Zimbabwe continue the practice of caning. Smith is sure that Harvard plans no trend-setting in this area. "I guarantee you," he said...
...points out that other courses at Harvard don't have a sophisticated method for finding out just how much collaboration goes into a problem...