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A more pernicious effect of the system's culture was its resistance to real, cost-efficient reform, especially when the impetus came from outsiders. When the Calvert School, a costly Baltimore private school, tested its nationally renowned curriculum in one of the city's elementary schools, it produced startling advances...
Central Park East Secondary School is an experiment that has withstood the test of time. A few years ago, it was one of the most celebrated alternative schools in the country. Deborah Meier, its founder in 1985, was the first public school teacher ever awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, and...
By betting on Edison, Vaughn thrust Wichita into the front ranks of a bold and still controversial experiment in privatizing public education. America's first four Edison schools opened in the fall of 1995 in Wichita; Boston; Mount Clemens, Mich.; and Sherman, Texas. Three years and nearly two dozen new...
Encouraged by a few studies supporting the idea, Marina Middle School principal John Michaelson organized all-girl and all-boy classes for the first time last year. In contrast to the monastic approach of some private schools, like the Catholic high school Michaelson attended, Marina doesn't segregate girls and...
The ticking of a woman's biological clock just got a lot quieter with the first known birth in the U.S. conceived from a frozen egg. It may stop altogether if turns out doctors can replicate a new technique that freezes a woman's eggs without rupturing the cells. A...