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Since leaving the University in 1993 to serve as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Shattuck's principal work has been in foreign affairs. In 1998 he became Ambassador to the Czech Republic, a post that he will leave in January to join the Kennedy Foundation...
Enter Irwin Jacobs, the Minneapolis-based financier whose takeover antics in the 1980s struck fear into the hearts of companies like ITT and Disney. Jacobs, a reformed predator, now runs Genmar Holdings, a remnant of his buccaneering days and a company whose principal business is building pleasure boats. Boatbuilding is...
Some educators have a more pressing concern--that extra days for everyone won't do much for the stragglers. "Some kids come to school with a 3,000-word vocabulary, and others come with 30,000 words, and when we place them in the same classroom from 8 to 2...
In other districts, the spike in enrollment has driven once cozy classes up to regular capacity. Overcrowding was so severe in one St. Louis district that some students had to be turned away. So two years ago, the district extended the school year five weeks across the board, dedicating the...
Parents, after all, may have a harder time adjusting to a longer school year than their children. "Adults are used to thinking that summer is some idyllic time when everybody goes to Europe for three months," says Marilyn Stenvall, a former principal and advocate of year-round schooling. "Even though...