Word: payzant
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...He’s a terrific choice and the leader of an urban school district that has improved with his leadership,” said Thomas W. Payzant, a former superintendent of the Boston Public Schools and a lecturer at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. “It’s going to be great to have a practitioner as Secretary of Education...
...changes are rooted in nationwide demographic trends. For one, families are having fewer children, according to Graduate School of Education Professor Thomas W. Payzant...
...you’re thinking about the big picture nationwide, students in the pipeline—in elementary and middle schools—are generating smaller numbers than have been coming up and through high school,” said Payzant, who led the Boston Public Schools from 1995 to 2006. “There’s no dramatic shift in the dropout rate or graduation rate of students. It’s overall demographics...
...Payzant said the shrinking applicant pool won’t likely affect the country’s most prestigious schools...
...Less selectivity] will be in a number of places where there has been a lot of ratcheting up of capacity to take more students,” Payzant said. “But whether or not those seats can be filled with a student body that can meet the standard may be an issue...