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...books—including House and The Soul of a New Machine—have won him the highest accolades, including a Pulitzer Prize for Soul. But from the project’s inception, Kidder says, he realized that Mountains Beyond Mountains would differ from his acclaimed portraits of urban schoolteachers, small-town police officers and house-builders...
...some cases, the problem is long memories. During the urban renewal era of the 50s and 60s, many universities rode roughshod over surrounding neighborhoods, earning the enmity of residents and community groups. But it is fair to ask whether reliving the conflicts of yesteryear is more important than forging a pragmatic future, particularly when so much has changed...
Paul S. Grogan is President and CEO of the Boston Foundation and co-author of Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival. Grogan was the Vice President for government, community and public affairs from...
This experience doesn’t translate to an urban landscape. In Patrick’s district and other inner-city districts with low-performing, highly transient student populations, No Child Left Behind continues to leave behind truly wonderful schools...
...problem with NCLB isn’t that it’s trying to get rid of those dumping grounds, but that it goes straight to the heart of America’s impoverished urban communities and brands the failing label into their schools, threatening fine institutions with sanctions and oversight. It acknowledges no difference between the most hopeful situations and the dumps that lost hope years ago. It calls good schools failures, and it fails as education reform...