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...understand the impact of the 2001 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, indelibly rebranded as No Child Left Behind (NCLB), you need to visit a school like Blaine. The astonishingly ambitious law, the Bush Administration's proudest domestic achievement, was crafted with high-poverty, low-achieving schools like this one in mind. NCLB proponents and critics alike agree that the law's greatest accomplishment has been shining an unforgiving spotlight on such languishing schools and demanding that they do better. At Blaine, for instance, only 13% of fifth- and eighth-graders were reading on grade level or above...
...tenure someday.”Although she sounds optimistic about editing her thesis into a series of journal-length articles, she grows most hopeful when she talks of publishing her verse.“I’d say that most of the work I’m proudest of comes through thought and through reading poetry and philosophy,” she says. It shows, especially in “Compline,” one in a series of poems chronicling the liturgical hours that was published in the Spring 2006 issue of The Gamut. The poem exudes...
...Spenser was the oldest, proudest bank on Wall Street, but it had entered into the early stages of a slow decline around the time I was hired. It was in all honesty this trend toward mediocrity that best explains my hiring.' --PAGE 54 OF mergers & acquisitions BY DANA VACHON...
...Eddie Robinson will be remembered for single-handedly putting Louisiana's tiny Grambling State University on the national map. Until 2003, when John Gagliardi of St. John's topped him, his 408-165-15 record over 56 years made him the winningest coach in college football. But he was proudest of the 200-plus players he sent to the NFL, including Paul Younger, the league's first player from an all-black school, in 1949, and Super Bowl MVP quarterback Doug Williams, who in 1998 succeeded Robinson as Grambling coach...
Whether they are entering a college like Harvard or diving straight into a job, teenagers’ high-school graduations are among the proudest days of their lives. Unfortunately, too many Massachusetts students drop out of high school before reaching this milestone—a sad effect of the state’s policy to mandate education only until age 16. At least 15 states, however, have adopted a minimum dropout age of 18, netting diplomas for a vastly larger population. Massachusetts Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 recently proposed such an increase here, and we join...