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...University of Chicago's Consortium on Chicago School Research concluded that most students from shuttered schools did not see any improvement in education quality, mainly because they ended up at schools that were as bad as the ones they had just left. Several turnarounds - same kids, new adults - did show noticeable gains, however, according to a recent Chicago Tribune analysis of city schools. But on the whole, the experiment was a mixed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Quick Fix for America's Worst Schools | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...helper at mealtimes and kept a written inventory of ingredients in the pantry. At 14, he got a job washing dishes at a diner where the chef-owner let him look over his shoulder at the stoves. For a while, Coudreaut thought he might want to be in show business, and as a kid he got small roles in TV commercials and an off-Broadway play. He also went to business school, but all the while he kept cooking, and at 28, he enrolled at the Culinary Institute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McDonald's Chef: The Most Influential Cook in America? | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...Donald, this is proof that data-driven police work and tougher sentencing are the answer to crime - not social-welfare programs. Conklin thinks it may be too soon to tell. "The unemployment rate began to spike less than a year ago. We may yet see the pressure show up in crime rates," he says. It's fair to say, though, that the belief in a simple cause-and-effect relationship between income and crime has worn pretty thin. (See more about crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Behind America's Falling Crime Rate | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...basis of answers to questions covering everything from spirituality to dental hygiene), the study found that black women garnered the fewest responses of any female group. White women responded at much higher rates to white men than to men of color. Asian women's and Latinas' response rates showed even stronger preferences for white men. (The site's latest eye-opening study determined which types of profile pictures elicit the most responses. To all the single ladies: the older you are, the more cleavage you should show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seeking My Race-Based Valentine Online | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

Best known as Larry David’s manager Jeff Greene on HBO’s "Curb Your Enthusiasm," Garlin will be attending an IGP improv show on Saturday, Mar. 6, at 11:30 p.m. to perform a guest monologue and to receive his award...

Author: By Danielle J. Kolin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jeff Garlin's Coming To Harvard! | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

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