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...many of us, this was far from breaking news. We attend college in an urban environment on the outskirts of a major city. Minor crime comes with the territory—and we grow used to hearing about the occasional iPod theft or late night assault. I, for one, didn’t pay much attention to that first warning on September...
...once heard one of Oz's friends say, with a touch of wistful regret, that he had never really held a job worthy of his talents after he was 50. But that ignores the thousands of lives he made better in small ways and large through his campaigning for urban renewal and his support of grass-roots community initiatives. And it misses the vital essence of the man - an ability to combine a keen eye and sharp instinct for the big issues of our time with an eye-twinkling liveliness that made him a tremendous joy to be around...
...agency that identifies and researches the most effective innovations in our public schools,” Broad said.Stephen W. Raudenbush ’68, chairman of the Committee on Education at the University of Chicago, which has its own major institute devoted to studying urban education, said there was some truth to Fryer and Broad’s sentiments about the lack of rigorous research in education policy. But he added that recent years have witnessed major research breakthroughs.“Understanding what works in education is a very challenging research enterprise,” said Raudenbush, who graduated...
...schools that Wagner cites as successful examples of teaching our children the survival skills he says they need are charter schools. It is hard to imagine how the lessons that work in schools in which each class has no more than 100 students could be applied in a large, urban school that has over 400 students in each grade. But, as tends to be the case with large social problems that lack easy answers, it is asking the right questions that helps us progress, and Wagner’s book raises many important questions about both the state and purpose...
...plan is in the next few years to have this as a platform for use in developing countries and urban settings where health care and medical devices may be at a premium,” Ghaffari said...