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...Even more pernicious is what critics call "ranksteering," i.e., specifically tailoring administrative decisions to move higher up on the list. The rankings encourage more per-pupil spending, which makes up 10% of a school's score and certainly doesn't help keep tuition down. Indeed, Bowdoin College watched its ranking slip from fourth to eighth in the '90s as it balanced its budget rather than keep pace with peers' spending increases. "Evaluating education in a way that rewards institutions for building Jacuzzis and rock walls as much as for investing in what happens in the classroom is a system that...
...Averted sectioning reassignments aside, teacher and pupil both agree that the class is more than just a glorified pre-game pep talk. Introductory Psychology or special permission from Baltzell was a prerequisite for the course, but for the small sect of non-concentrators or the athletically-impaired, Baltzell claims that there’s still much to be offered...
...money is not what schools need from the federal government. Over the past 40 years, we as a nation have increased per pupil spending by two and one half times—in real dollar terms. Yet student performance has hardly budged over that period of time. Even our best students—the top tenth—do not perform any better today than their parents and grandparents did forty-odd years ago. Meanwhile, high school graduation rates are lower today than they were...
...While the report calls for some new investment in education, it argues that most of its proposals can be accomplished simply by reallocating the huge amount of money we're already spending on public schools - about $9,000 a year per K-12 pupil on average, according to the report, the world's second highest figure...
...Instead, Eliasson's Eye See You, a lamp shaped like the pupil of an eye, will stare out of Vuitton windows and create what the artist calls "a stage like setting on the street." The proceeds from sales of a limited number of the works along with Eliasson's fees for the project will be donated to 121Ethiopia, a charitable foundation established by the artist and his wife, Marianne Krogh Jensen, in Ethiopia...