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But I don’t quite buy it. From reading Johnson’s book, it is depressingly unclear that the efforts he describes have amounted to anything. Of the three people he portrayed, Mr. Ma was imprisoned and subsequently blacklisted from the legal profession, Mr. Fang left the...
“I think it’s so sad that the vast majority of Harvard students will go into a very lucrative profession, do a little bit of community service on the side to feel better about their lives, do nothing to change the underlying structures that have...
The House budget would pick up another $15.25 billion in "unspecified savings." Explains a Republican leadership aide: "That usually means there's a cold chance in hell of getting any of it enacted." For example, the House would save $3 billion over three years in reduced Medicare costs, but without...
All this comes at a time when veteran teachers are fleeing the profession, and college students, put off primarily by the poor salaries (an average of $17,000 to start) and the low job prestige, are veering away from education careers. As recently as 1968, nearly 25% of college freshmen...
...much as $32,000 to handle such critical assignments as bilingual education in depressed, inner-city schools. And last month the California commission on the teaching profession began consideration of two long-range programs to lure and hold crack teachers: the creation of a prestigious new professional school for well-compensated master teachers and the funding of "key" schools, where administrators and teachers would have the freedom and money to develop the education materials and techniques of the future...