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...quite giants either. Take the case of Senator Joe Lieberman, the only candidate who passed the Bennett test at the Children's Defense Fund. He celebrated the American victory in Iraq, a war he has favored from the start, and he celebrated the success of Bill Clinton's welfare reform. These are, believe it or not, controversial positions with the Democratic Party's base, but Lieberman is so decent and solid a man that the apostasy provoked only a few discomforted rustlings in the crowd. (Lieberman was prepared, I am told, to endorse school vouchers if he'd been asked...
...Howard Dean also passed the Bennett test, but he only did so under duress. He was asked about a quote from 1996, in which he heaped slag upon the Children's Defense Fund's founder, Marian Wright Edelman, for being one of those "liberals" who wrongly opposed the welfare-reform bill. He retracted the slag - Edelman, a study in demure imperiousness, was seated in the front row - but not the sentiment. He said he embraced welfare reform in Vermont and implied that he did it better than Clinton. But then, to hear Dean speak, he did just about everything better...
...years ago, Massachusetts policymakers adopted a strategy of radical reforms for education. A key feature of the reform strategy was the use of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) to measure student learning. Since MCAS was first administered in 1998, it has spawned a very vigorous, sustained debate. Initially, the debate was healthy and constructive, but now it has become distraction. We can continue to argue about measuring sticks, or we can commit ourselves to solving the fundamental, underlying problem: inequality in education...
...dead but damned. And rightly so. So, after Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby decided last month to abandon his controversial proposal to ditch shopping period—or refashion it until it became unrecognizable—many people now think the appropriate way forward for undergraduate education reform is through piecemeal tinkering rather than sweeping alterations. In that vein, Monday’s announcement by Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Peter T. Ellison that the majority of each class’ teaching fellows (TFs) must be hired a semester in advance has been widely...
Summers’ advice regarding developing nations comes as Harvard fights a two-year-old lawsuit in which the government has alleged that the conduct of two University affiliates undermined a federally funded economic reform program in Russia. The parties are waiting on a judge’s decision on whether or not Harvard can be found liable for $102 million in damages without a trial...