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...10th Annual John T. Dunlop Lecture, Donovan presented a sampling of the Obama administration’s plans for new housing initiatives to a crowd packed with hundreds of students, professors, and other attendees. One such proposal, the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative, aims to link neighborhood transformation with school reform and calls for increased federal housing spending during the 2010 fiscal year...
Shortly thereafter, then-University President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 named him GSE Dean in 1964. Sizer left Harvard in 1972 to become the headmaster at Philips Academy Andover, and in 1994 was named Department Head for Education and Director of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University...
Alternative programs such as Teach for America have shown the value of giving teachers immediate classroom experience and should be noted as an example of the value of learning through doing. As education schools attempt to reform and improve their methods, they should consider incorporating the ideas of TFA and the New York City Teaching Fellows program, which places novice teachers in struggling districts...
After a weekend of intense consultations with fellow Democrats, Senate majority leader Harry Reid has decided he has the votes to get a health-reform bill with a public option to the Senate floor. "I believe we clearly will have the support of my caucus to move to this bill and start legislating," Reid declared at a news conference Monday afternoon. The real question, however, is whether he has the votes it will take to get it out of the chamber...
...tied to Medicare's reimbursement rates, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would prefer. That, however, would likely bring strong opposition from doctors, hospitals and other health-care providers, who complain that they are underpaid by Medicare, as well as many moderate Democrats. (See 10 players in health-care reform...