Word: payzant
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...Payzant, the superintendent of the San Diego City schools, knows well the dangers of steering a big city school system. His eight years in San Diego make him one of the longest tenured urban superintendents in this country, he says...
...Payzant, a 1968 Education School graduate and an advisor to the Urban Superintendent's program, points to the sheer size and diversity characterizing urban populations as important factors behind the political battles raging in urban American school systems...
...administrators must also take care to use their freedom creatively, evaluating everything from the length of a typical class period to how math should be taught. "Restructuring won't make much impact on learning and teaching if we just tinker with the system," says San Diego superintendent Thomas Payzant...