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Although Peterkin will have fulfilled his three-year contract when he resigns this June, his announcement came only three months after he had announced a five-year plan for the improvement of the Milwaukee schools...
When Hedrick Smith finished a three-year reporting stint in the Soviet Union in 1974, he did not even dream of writing this book. In fact, he wrote a very different one: The Russians, a best seller that depicted a Soviet society mired in lies, corruption and fear. He was convinced, he recalls in The New Russians, that "fundamental change was impossible...
...Harvard effort to fill the imposing gap has got off to a modest start, boosted by the announcement last week that Milwaukee superintendent Robert Peterkin had resigned his embattled post to direct the program. Ten students, seven of them minority-group members, have begun a three-year doctoral exercise that includes a six-month internship in an urban superintendent's office. The effort is mercifully short on theory and long on experience and real life. Students -- most with more than a decade in public education -- role-play different sides in past labor negotiations, face local television reporters and ponder administrative...
Peterkin, who left his Cambridge post in 1988 to take the helm of the public school system in Milwaukee, Wisc., has been named the new director of the Urban Superintendents Program, a three-year doctoral program at the Graduate School of Education that certifies graduates to work as school superintendants in Massachusetts and several other states...
...against them and so, for the moment, are the numbers. Hartmarx Corp., which owns middle-income retail stores like Wallachs in New York and Baskin in Chicago as well as Hart Schaffner & Marx, purveyors of off-the-peg businessman style for more than 100 years, has been enduring a three-year slump even though it retains an 11% share of the U.S. men's suit market. Brooks Brothers posted a 41% drop in operating profits for the past fiscal year. A spokesman for Marks & Spencer, the British department-store outfit that now owns Brooks, blamed "difficult trading conditions and severe...