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Owen's class at Greystone, an introduction to the professional kitchen, ran from 2 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. daily. Along with 17 other students, she started the day with classroom instruction devoted to a particular form of meal preparation. During one session, they learned grilling, during another braising, then on to deep frying, and so forth. Next the students, outfitted in full chef's attire, moved into the kitchen and in teams of three created a specific menu for the evening. Dishes Owen prepared included grilled salmon, fried squid and risotto. "Despite all the complicated dishes I cooked...
...technique. The sound of a gong that resonated throughout the kitchen at 7 p.m. meant it was time to stop cooking and start eating. Timing the meals and preparing them quickly, as restaurants would, was a major component of each day's lesson. After dinner, students returned to the classroom to review what was learned that...
...Bethel, 55, an Arlington, Va., architect and avid cook, has taken four Boot Camp courses at Hyde Park. His days started at 7:30 a.m. with breakfast, followed by 45 minutes of classroom instruction on a particular type of food preparation. Then, as part of a team of three, he went to the kitchen to prepare set menus, which varied each day. A sample meal in one of his courses, enough to serve six people: sauteed breast of chicken with prosciutto and mozzarella cheese, maple-glazed carrots and garlic mashed potatoes. Meal preparation was done by about...
...previous projects: it must work with unions, a district bureaucracy and students who weren't specially recruited for its schools. But unlike the other two for-profit companies, Chancellor Beacon has been slow to roll out changes, instead beginning the year by studying the problem through teacher surveys, classroom visits and student test scores. In coming weeks the company plans to convene a parent round table, introduce new math and reading curricula and step up training for teachers. "There are things here that are working and things thataren't, and we're taking time to figure that out,"says...
Marla Blakney's fifth-grade classroom is the front line in the nation's largest experiment in privately run public schools. And on a muggy fall morning in Room 308 at Harrity Elementary School, the troops are doing the Macarena. Arms crossing, hips swiveling, 24 Philadelphia schoolchildren are shouting a mantra--"Wisdom! Justice! Courage!..."--that is supposed to create the lively but respectful classroom environment that can elude even good teachers. And to their skeptical teacher's amusement, it seems to be working. "When Edison taught us this, I thought, 'This is so corny. My kids...