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Duncan's choices could have a transformative impact on America's beleaguered public-education system. On July 24, he stood beside President Barack Obama and announced the guidelines for states to compete for most of that cash. The $4.35 billion Race to the Top (RTT) fund lets states apply for grants that focus on a short list of reforms guaranteed to anger one of the Democratic Party's core constituencies, the teachers' unions. (The remaining $650 million will go to innovative local school districts and nonprofits.) With Duncan handling the ball, the Obama Administration is about to square off with...
...Rogers Jr.--his mentor since their years together at the Lab School, where Duncan says he followed Rogers around "like a puppy dog." Duncan proceeded to co-found a small school with his sister. He then ran the magnet program for the Chicago board of education and was the system's deputy chief of staff, before being tapped to serve as its head. His 7˝ years as superintendent produced mixed results. While he oversaw modest gains in student achievement, Duncan's tenure was most notable for his willingness to try anything, regardless of ideological association--expanding charter schools, paying students...
...didn't, you might have ended up dead. "The dividing line between those two was clearly educational opportunity," he says. Sure, all kids are guaranteed seats in a classroom, but too many are taught by middling teachers in awful schools, Duncan says. "It's obvious the system's broken. Let's admit it's broken, let's admit it's dysfunctional, and let's do something dramatically different, and let's do it now. But don't just tinker around the edges. Don't just play with it. Let's fix the thing...
...Valente said. Before working at Harvard, Engert was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, San Diego, and University of California, Berkeley, studying tadpole sensory processing. “Professor Engert is a scientist of remarkable scope, having made important contributions to two distinct fields, visual system development and motor system function,” said Earth and Planetary Sciences Chair Jeremy Bloxham in a press release. “A highly creative researcher, his publications are consistently of the highest quality. He is also an outstanding teacher, a wonderful colleague, and a generous member of the neuroscience community...
...rains likely contributed to the leak, as the precipitation could have created sink-holes around the gas main, which had allowed the gas to escape from a pre-existing crack. The gas then likely followed the newly-installed water main that feeds Old Quincy’s sprinkler system into the building. “The gas follows the path of least resistance,” Murphy said. “The soil around the recent excavation [for the water main] probably isn’t as compact as the surrounding soil.” Despite the leak, the House?...