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...schools) likes to remind critics that children are not cogs and what works for companies may not necessarily work for schools. But the business analogy holds, says Mastery CEO Scott Gordon, if you see kids as customers and schools as the product to be reworked, perfected and sold. Mastery schools operate with obsessive attention to data. Daily and weekly figures on student performance, attendance, tardiness - these numbers are pored over by teachers who are themselves regularly monitored and evaluated. The goal is for every person in the building to be constantly improving...
...included edamame. The Soyfoods Council, a trade group, immediately got calls from consumers across the nation looking to buy edamame at their grocery stores. "Now you can find it in supermarkets all over," says the council's executive director, Linda Funk, who has even seen the immature soybean pods sold near her small hometown of Janesville...
...even in a place where consumer spending never before existed, the rules of the market economy suddenly kicked in. And the explosive growth in the money supply, combined with pent-up demand, led to another economic phenomenon: hyperinflation. Cigarettes sold for as much as one million pesos a pack. A roll of toilet paper cost 100,000 pesos, or $34. Suárez recalled a bidding war that broke out over a transistor radio that finally sold for the equivalent of $12,000. Some of the troops, intent on spending every waking hour looking for money, bought their...
Harvard University’s U.S. stock holdings expanded last quarter, indicating that the University is continuing its buying trend that began last spring after it had sold off the majority of those publicly-traded assets during the financial crisis...
Last quarter, the University nearly doubled its investment in an index fund tracking Chinese markets, while selling off more than half its holdings in an index fund of Taiwanese companies. But Harvard also sold nearly all its shares of a Japanese index fund, reducing its holdings from $10.6 million to just...