Word: rethinking
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Only 20 schools are up and running in Orleans Parish, the majority of them charters. By their nature, charters favor spreading decision-making authority away from central boards. That's roughly in accord with the philosophy growing out of an exercise conducted by the city to rethink the school system as it comes back to life. Under the direction of Scott Cowen, president of Tulane University, the BNOB education committee interviewed 20 national experts, examined school programs from New York City to Oakland, Calif., and called in the Rand Corp. for advice...
...priorities of many students, who value money more than social good. The room is quiet.Three days after her performance, Datar reflects on her audience’s mixed reaction. Although she worries about making enemies along the way, her courage to speak up may cause many students to rethink what they once held to be true. “Just thinking about how much there is to be done, how much can be done and isn’t getting done, frustrates me so much,” she says. Datar hopes that she can get people to see outside...
...divestment campaign, but it’s time for them to eliminate their investment in those companies that continue to sustain a genocidal regime.” “Amherst’s divestment and Yale’s divestment this month oblige Harvard to rethink the extent of the divestment,” he said. While PetroChina’s involvement in Sudan was well-publicized, the extent of Sinopec’s activities are not as clear.A Washington Post reporter, Peter S. Goodman, wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson last spring that...
He’s not the only one, either. Last fall, 23 percent of CUE guide respondents said the class “changed their lives.” And according to several TFs, it has inspired many students to switch concentrations and rethink their professional plans...
...revolution," says Marc Miller, a Democrat who worked in the office and is now a law professor at Emory University. "Sam was the least of that, a good lawyer and soft-spoken." Alito sometimes frustrated staff members by examining issues from all sides, sending attorneys back to rethink memos if he didn't think they had explored them all. In one often cited memo he wrote before he entered the legal counsel's office but that is emblematic of his scholarly approach, Alito argued that the Administration should not press the Supreme Court into throwing out a suit from...