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...work for social good. For instance, JP Morgan allows its new analysts to defer employment for two years to participate in Teach For America (see “Those Who Can, Teach?” page 14). Bain, meanwhile, developed The Bridgespan Group, which offers analysis to non-profit organizations, and spun it off six years...
...little accountability—these gatekeepers, some think, have far too much power over the progress of science. For these reasons, some in the scientific community have proposed switching to open-publication, online journals. In one model, used by the soon-to-launch online journal of the non-profit Public Library of Science (PLoS), scientists will be able to publish their papers online for a fee after only nominal editing by the journal’s editors. The review process would take place online and post-publication. Only in this case, anyone, not just the author’s scientific...
...profit competes for self-starting, hard working leaders who can think on their feet with the big boys of Harvard recruiting. And TFA, by way of the districts they teach in, offers as little as $25,000 in compensation per year, a mere quarter of what a first-year analyst at a top firm can expect...
...Rosemary Perlmeter, president of the non-profit Dallas-based Coalition of Effective Charters (CEC), has proposed giving more state money to successful charter schools while enacting more stringent laws to rein in underperforming ones. Traditional public schools receive $800 per student per year for "facility fees" and campus improvements, Perlmeter points out, but charter schools receive none. "Public schools that are consistently performing at high levels should be supported and nurtured whether they are charter or traditional," Perlmeter says. "If they're underperforming or irresponsibly using government funds, they should be closed...
...schools were good for the overall educational system. By contrast, his Democratic opponent, Ted Strickland, drew thunderous applause when he stated: "About $500 million, I believe, was taken out of our public system to fund underperforming charter schools last year. I think that's a waste of resources - for-profit charter schools trouble me greatly...