Word: stanfords
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...decline, which amounts to more than $8 billion, is larger than the endowments of all but four other universities—Yale, Princeton, Stanford...
...data back up Rhee's obsession with teaching. If two average 8-year-olds are assigned to different teachers, one who is strong and one who is weak, the children's lives can diverge in just a few years, according to research pioneered by Eric Hanushek at Stanford. The child with the effective teacher, the kind who ranks among the top 15% of all teachers, will be scoring well above grade level on standardized tests by the time she is 11. The other child will be a year and a half below grade level--and by then it will take...
...campaign's final stretch, Obama was much more muted on education; it was McCain who made the boldest case for reform. And Obama's decision to elevate campaign adviser Linda Darling-Hammond, a Stanford education professor whose positions are often aligned with those of the unions, to lead his education transition team worries the reform community. "The idea that Obama was wholeheartedly behind school reform might have been the triumph of hope over evidence," says Mike Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute in Washington...
...Flier told the students that their concerns would be addressed in a University-wide review of industry-related practice and policy that was scheduled for this fall. David Korn ’54, a former dean of Stanford University School of Medicine who began his term as Harvard’s first vice provost for research this week, will be leading the review committee, which has yet to be formed...
...Joffe is editor of Die Zeit, and a fellow of the Institute for International Studies and of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University