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...Peterkin, who has headed the nationally recognized Cambridge City Schools since 1984, was unanimously chosen by the Milwaukee Board of School Directors last Friday...
Superintendent of Cambridge City Schools Robert S. Peterkin will take office as superintendent of the Milwaukee school system on August 1, aides in his office said yesterday...
...area teachers because the opportunity to take time off and study is often hard to come by. In Cambridge and Boston, sabbatical openings are limited, and the cities do not provide tuition grants for teachers who want to return to graduate school. Cambridge Superintendent of Schools Robert S. Peterkin says the school department budget does not allow room for tuition grants to teachers...
...Conant Fellowships represent just one recent effort by the University to increase its involvement in urban schooling, says Superintendent Peterkin. In 1984, a group called the Cambridge Partnership was founded in order to improve education in the city, and Peterkin attributes much of Harvard's recent participation to that group. He also cites Vice President for Government and Community Affairs John Shattuck and Dean of the Education School Patricia A. Graham as important influences...
...some people who are keeping the focal point up [at Harvard], the school system responds. I feel good about it," Peterkin says...