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...their tuition. And only two cities, Milwaukee, Wis., and Cleveland, Ohio, use tax dollars to supply the vouchers. In 30 or so others, funding is provided by private donations. In Washington, for instance, Ted Forstmann, the head of investment firm Forstmann Little & Co., has joined with another investor, John Walton, to pledge $6 million in tuition assistance for 1,000 D.C. children. "I hope this will be the wave of the future," says Forstmann, "citizens taking responsibility for problems...
...Highland Park sixth-graders are taught to act as cool-headed "peer mediators" who swoop in to resolve tussles among their peers. At Hazel Valley Elementary School, outside Seattle, misbehaving students go to principal Barbara Walton's office not for a scolding but for a questionnaire that asks them to identify the classroom problems they caused and to generate solutions. "It's nice to have discipline that's problem solving and not just punishment," Walton says...
...Walton's writing style is very punchy, as if to reflect the short, tough speech patterns of workers in the car industry. "In the world of automotive head lamps," Walton writes, "you had your forces of light and your forces of darkness, that was how Kim Peterson saw it. And Peterson was a light force. He liked bright head lamps....Truck head lamps were his idea of great lamps...
Unfortunately, the most interesting sections of the book--when Walton moves away from the minute intricacies of constructing the Taurus and focuses on the larger issues surrounding car building in America--are all too rare. Walton explains, in an enlightening digression, that the design of the "'96 Ford Taurus was unique in that the company set out to make a car in the Japanese mold--they aimed to spend more money and less time, and to create something which could rival the smooth precision of a Toyota-built automobile. In short, their mission statement was 'Beat Camry."' In another chapter...
These sections, albeit excellent, are presented by Walton as peripheral, as stuff to get out of the way so you can get back to the good stuff--spark plugs, transmissions and powertrains. These minute mechanical tales, however, grow tiresome. No doubt there is a great story here somewhere,but it is certainly not going to be found under the hood--which is exactly where Walton spends the majority of her time looking...