Word: teachers
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...approach that emphasizes accountability in schools as the best way to get them in shape. To its credit, Chicago has poured $50 million a year into programs that directly target retainees. But that money could just as well be spent on things like smaller classes, individual tutoring and improved teacher training without also flunking massive numbers. "Retaining students," Chicago education researcher Suzanne Davenport says, "is a blame-the-victim solution." But it will last as long as politicians continue to believe they need to punish kids like Lashawnda Walker in order to save them...
Dozoretz, 48, grew up in Worcester, Mass.; her mother was a homemaker, her father a dentist, teacher and sometime inventor. She rose from the retail-sales floor to become president of a women's clothier in New York City. By 1989, only in her late 30s, she had been twice divorced and was financially comfortable enough to contemplate retiring. Then, at a party, she met Ron Dozoretz, head of FHC Health Systems, a large behavioral-health, managed-care outfit. (His estimated net worth, according to Virginia Business magazine: $250 million.) He proposed two weeks after their first date...
...some people have talked lately about the lack of heroes, that it would be hard to find any who stand up to scrutiny. That's a misunderstanding too. What's true is that we don't have any more of those all-purpose heroes, the king or teacher or paragon who is right and true all the time. But we do have plenty of people with heroic passages in their life, who bravely shatter a limitation or convention and open up new possibilities in the life of others. As we at TIME selected our heroes, we found a pattern...
...University continues to grow,adding new buildings and programs and attemptingto lower student-teacher ratios, officials havecome to the conclusion that even Harvard's campuswill have to be reconsidered to allow theUniversity to keep up with its educational goals...
...will do battle with advocates of Olympic sextesting, a now common practice that Miller devotedher thesis to critiquing. She is also consideringsports medicine or orthopedic surgery. Maybe shewill vote for George W. Bush after all. For awoman who got used to assuming different roleswhile watching her mother, an English teacher,direct school plays, no play seems impossible...