HGSE in the Media

July 2007

Sullivan: Changing One City School at a Time
"You build it classroom by classroom, and when you get a few schools where dedicated teachers and strong leadership are clearly making progress, then it’s much more difficult for others in the system to deny it’s happening, say it’s impossible to make a difference." – Professor Thomas Payzant (St. Louis Dispatch, 7/22/07)

City Schools Hire Teachers With Stronger Credentials
"Researchers led by Thomas J. Kane...found in research published last year as a working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research that, on average, the fellows’ scores on the mathematics portion of the SAT college-entrance examination ranked them at the 68th percentile, while certified teachers hired in the same five years ranked only at the 59th." (Education Week, 7/18/07. Free registration required.)

Antonio’s Kitchen Cabinet
"If there’s always change going on at the top, where there’s always a new agenda.... It creates instability. You have to build support and allow some time for schools to improve." – Professor Thomas Payzant (L.A. Weekly, 7/18/07)

Leave Those Kids Alone
"It’s a huge and dangerous overstatement to say that low-income parents don’t stimulate their children." – Associate Professor Mica Pollock (Boston Globe, 7/15/07)

Congress May Radically Change How Student-Loan Subsidies Are Set
"To some extent, you’re probing in the dark, and hoping you’re not making a mistake." – Professor Thomas Kane (The Chronicle of Higher Education, 7/13/07. Paid registration required.)

Schools Grapple with How to Integrate
"The socioeconomic approach to equity in schools ‘is a useful tool in a toolkit, but it shouldn't be a substitute for talking about how to achieve racially and ethnically diverse schools as well. They’re going to be losing a great opportunity for students ... to encounter as great a range of human experience as possible in the classroom." – Associate Professor Mica Pollock (Christian Science Monitor, 7/2/07)

Newer Presidents See Role of Unions Changing, Study Finds
"We don’t have an answer about where this will end up, but it is a period of great change and opportunity for the unions." – Professor Susan Moore Johnson (Education Week, 6/29/07. Free registration required.)