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...Harvard effort to fill the imposing gap has got off to a modest start, boosted by the announcement last week that Milwaukee superintendent Robert Peterkin had resigned his embattled post to direct the program. Ten students, seven of them minority-group members, have begun a three-year doctoral exercise that includes a six-month internship in an urban superintendent's office. The effort is mercifully short on theory and long on experience and real life. Students -- most with more than a decade in public education -- role-play different sides in past labor negotiations, face local television reporters and ponder administrative...
...very pleased at having Dr. Peterkin back in Cambridge," said Mary Lou McGrath, the current superintendent. "We believe that's an excellent move for Harvard, Dr. Peterkin, and Cambridge," she said of the appointment...
...sure he'll give it a good effort," said Frances H. Cooper, a member of the School Committee. Cooper has served on the committee since 1984, when Peterkin was hired as superintendent...
Former Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci said that he and Peterkin had not worked together closely, but that his sense was that the former superintendant is a "good...
...Peterkin will have to grapple with a series of thorny problems now plaguing schools in Cambridge and other urban areas, Vellucci said...