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Readers beware! Do not be confused by Professor Paul Peterson's latest piece in this month's Commentary magazine on school choice. School choice refers to the freedom of parents and students to choose either between competing public schools or between public and private schools. Peterson, Henry Lee Shattuck professor of Government, summarizes the recent literature on this recent development in education policy...
...School choice is an experiment we cannot afford to pass up," this self-described "cautious optimist" writes. Presumably, Peterson means that given the current state of education in America-public schools are in shambles and we are the worst educated of the industrial nations-it is time to try something...
Hostility between Kaplan and Princeton Review is nothing new, according to others in the industry. The President of Peterson's-a company that makes admissions test guides-said he first heard about the lawsuit yesterday morning...
Walton's writing style is very punchy, as if to reflect the short, tough speech patterns of workers in the car industry. "In the world of automotive head lamps," Walton writes, "you had your forces of light and your forces of darkness, that was how Kim Peterson saw it. And Peterson was a light force. He liked bright head lamps....Truck head lamps were his idea of great lamps...
Cleaning up after themselves, as Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson did, seems like a quaint gesture of guilt next to a hasty return to the prom for a postpartum spin around the dance floor. There's not a flicker of humanity in these cases, and there are more of them being reported, if not more of them happening. No one keeps comprehensive statistics on abandoned babies, but in Los Angeles County last year, there were 10 newborns left to die; two summers ago, three were discarded in Southern California beach communities. In Monmouth County, N.J., where Drexler left her baby...