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The whole ordeal was a hallucinogenic nightmare. Principal photography took an exhausting 238 days. A typhoon destroyed some of the sets. The director mortgaged his house to cover ballooning costs. He fired his first leading actor (Harvey Keitel) and found that his second (Martin Sheen) had suffered a heart attack...
Mahar, for one, is disappointed, largely because he's seen the benefits of a preschool program firsthand while serving as principal at a private Catholic school in the 1980s. When standardized test results came in for the school's two kindergarten classes in Mahar's first year on the job...
Jennifer Henry has a goal: to run an inner city school where all the students go to college, to prove that it can be done, that "you can't just blame the kids and the neighborhood." She's got an impressive educational r?sum?: During high school and college she taught...
On Wednesday, New Leaders for New Schools, a public-private partnership dedicated to recruiting and training inner-city principals, announced Henry and 14 others as members of the "first ever national corps of urban school principals." (The program hopes to grow rapidly). The principals-to-be get seven weeks of...
And that's going to be even more of a problem when the Bush education bill becomes law. The cornerstone of the bill's accountability provisions is a threat: schools that continually fail will get "reconstituted" - the principal will be fired, a new administrative team will come in and all...