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...nowadays is that if we really wanted to “teach for America,” we’d ship the greenhorn college grads back to teach in the rich, suburban schools from which so many originate and send the well-trained suburban teachers off to poorer, urban schools where the students might most benefit from them. Such a strategy is probably impossible, but it underscores a question about TFA that we can’t ignore: why are we sending our least-prepared teachers off to teach at some of the nation’s highest-need...
...TIME: Is that what it's all about then: keep the people fed and watered and they won't bother you? LEE: With rural folk, yes. With the town folk, that's a different problem. As China moves to a majority urban society, [where people have access to] satellite TV, Internet, cell phones, the towns have to be governed differently. At the moment they are co-opting: you are a successful entrepreneur, you are a great artist, then join us. The Communist Party is a very broad church. You help drive China forward. Make it work better...
...Phillips Brooks-ite, he is popular with the do-gooder crowd. “People don’t think of him as someone who would be great working with kids,” says Techrosette Leng ’07, who worked closely with Lee at the Summer Urban Program (SUP). “You’d be surprised at how easy he is to work with...
...still no students had arrived for a brainstorming session organized for the Undergraduate Council (UC) by Allston planners. “A real undergraduate?” Graduate School of Design professor Alex Krieger asked hopefully as a student entered the room. Krieger, a professor in practice of urban design, is co-founder of Chan Krieger & Associates, the firm charged with developing a program for the non-academic components of Harvard’s new campus across the Charles River. He encouraged the three members of the UC who ultimately attended the meeting to think creatively, but the conversation remained...
...October, a tenants’ association even filed a suit with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development charging that they’d been “prevented from participating substantially and meaningfully” in the decision-making process...