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...University and the University of Pennsylvania will provide extensive services atothers. In addition, the panel hired Paul Vallas,who oversaw major reforms in Chicago's schools, as its new district CEO. Butmosteyes, in Philadelphia and around the nation, are focused on the for-profit companies that ambitiously, and controversially, aim to improve failing public schools while rewarding private investors...
DIED. CHARLES GUGGENHEIM, 78, four-time Oscar-winning filmmaker and pioneering producer of the televised campaign commercial; in Washington. One of the nation's most prolific documentarians, Guggenheim took aim at social injustice with such works as The Johnstown Flood (1989) and Nine from Little Rock (1964) and saluted America in D-Day Remembered (1994) and Robert Kennedy Remembered (1968). He made his first campaign ads for Adlai Stevenson in 1956. But by the mid-'80s, he had quit political campaigning, saying it was "sick...
...Calling in the military to operate fancy surveillance technology may prove frustrating. Satellites are particularly unhelpful, experts say. They cannot monitor the entire D.C. region at once in any detail. The RC-7 surveillance plane brings fewer handicaps. It can loiter over D.C., aim its camera at a shooting scene after a 911 call and pick out a white van. But it would miss vehicles obscured by trees or buildings...
...carry on seven or eight conversations simultaneously? During my junior year of high school, I gave up Instant Messenger for Lent in hopes of proving to myself that I didn’t need AOL Instant Messenger to communicate with my friends. I found, however, that life without AIM is slow at best. In the age of communication and technology, why not revel in our ability to keep in touch with friends—without having to deal with the hassle of long distance fees...
...aim to build social capital in our community,” said education panel attendee Jessica R. Dugan, director of community and business partnerships at the Boston Renaissance Charter School...