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Whittle has been criticized as a sort of Music Man of Education Inc. Previously, he started an advertiser-sponsored classroom TV news program, Channel One, which was castigated for its mercenary approach. Whittle sold Channel One to Primedia in 1994. The for-profit school idea is less corporately tainted--it's not brought to you by Coke...
...launched its first public school, the Philadelphia Academy Charter School, in a former airplane-parts plant last fall. Nobel plans to open at least five more charter schools by the end of the year. "There is absolutely no way you'll make a profit unless you have a quality program," says A.J. Clegg, CEO of Nobel, which earned $1.6 million on revenues of $110 million last year. New wrinkles at Nobel's Philadelphia school include lessons in Mandarin Chinese for every student from kindergarten to eighth grade. Why Mandarin? "It's the cash language for the 21st century," explains principal...
Lincoln, which has a strong agricultural program, has reinvented itself as an open-admissions school. Anyone who graduates from a state-accredited high school is eligible for admission. So Lincoln is attracting white commuter students from nearby farm towns who probably couldn't get admitted anywhere else. But Lincoln president David Henson insists that despite changing demographics, "the university's culture is still driven for the most part by African-American standards." All incoming students must take courses on cultural diversity and African-American history...
...healthy? "You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy," H.G. Wells suggested long before the Net. "Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy, and unreliable--but teach him, inoculate him with chess." A Chilean friend quit the club and deleted the whole program from his computer after clicking on a whimsical feature that calculated "percentage of your life wasted on chess." (I paraphrase.) He found the number disturbingly high...
...projection 30. Stutz Bearcat contemporary 31. Wen Ho Lee has been denied bail in the Los __ security breach 32. 1936 Peace Nobelist Carlos Saavedra __ 34. C.I.C. 36. Delta of Venus author 38. Diner orders, for short 39. "March Madness" org. 42. College sr.'s test 44. Extension on program files...