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Mastery has already increased test scores by double digits in each school, partially through a "no excuses" philosophy that stresses personal discipline as much as academics. Students noticed the attitude change immediately. "They really brought down the hammer," says Samuel Cowans, a 17-year-old Shoemaker student who was at...
The Chicago school closings are now acknowledged to have been 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...
That doesn't fit the model of wholesale change preferred by turnaround evangelists. But that's another lesson of school reform: half measures are often the best you can do. "There is an opportunity here to fix schools that haven't worked for a long, long time," says Ben Rayer...
That's a highly corporate way to think about food - celery root is certainly real, so real that it's covered in dirt when you buy it at the supermarket - but McDonald's is, after all, a corporation. Coudreaut may be a chef, but his employer is no restaurant. McDonald...
And anyway, there is literally not enough celery root grown in the world for it to survive on the menu at McDonald's - although the company could change that, since its menu decisions quickly become global agricultural concerns. Not long after he arrived at McDonald's in 2004, Coudreaut added...