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...sunrise every morning in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale, the Shanker family gets ready for work. Steven Shanker, 37, and his wife Avima, 35, wake their two sons, Elan, 5, and Dannel, 2, for a hurried breakfast of cereal and orange juice. After the meal Avima heads off by 7:30 to her job as an engineer at Librascope, a computer firm. Then, as other pinstriped parents up and down the San Fernando Valley march out to their cars with groggy children in tow, Steven, a vice president at Union Bank in nearby Monterey Park, drives the boys...
Millions of American working couples must scramble every day to arrange care for their children. But the Shankers have one big advantage over most parents: the day-care center is at Steven's office. Union Bank provides $150,000 a year to subsidize the complex, which includes spacious play areas and five classrooms. While it would cost Shanker up to $700 a month to put his boys in other local day-care facilities of comparable quality, he pays the bank only $520 through convenient payroll deductions. Moreover, the arrangement allows him to avoid paying taxes on the portion...
More than that, in part because of Bennett's broadsides, teachers were considered the problem, which left them wary of the reformers. "The constant criticism is demoralizing," complains Albert Shanker, head of the American Federation of Teachers. "If the Secretary of Commerce disliked businessmen as much as Bennett dislikes teachers, the President would throw him out of the Cabinet...
Bennett has some markedly ecumenical company, including Carnegie Foundation President Ernest Boyer, a liberal. Boyer's 1986 book College: The Undergraduate Experience in America takes higher education to task for disjointed careerist study programs, confusion over goals and lack of a liberal arts core curriculum. Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers, declares himself a Hirsch fan. "Education holds our society together only as long as what is taught has value and is important," he says. "You can't teach reading with comic books and rock-star magazines and expect kids to be educated...
...Shanker's comment alluded to the 1960s and1970s, when "our schools made a big mistake oftelling their parents not to meddle withchildren's homework...