So there is a school of medicine, have a big number of student fellows.
The location of a school plays a big role in compensation for its grads.
As a graduate of the Google school of dreaming big — when he worked there, Mr. Armstrong helped expand a sales force that clobbered much of the rest of the media economy — Mr. Armstrong is nothing if not a true believer.
"I was being recruited by a lot of big schools," said Meno, who was born in Congo but moved to Paris with his family when he was 5. "But you know like those schools, you go into a classroom, you're just a number or a letter.
"A lot of big schools didn't get in on him early enough because there wasn't much [game] film on him [before last season]," Croson said.
"A lot of big schools, they act like you're just lucky to be there and they don't really care if you graduate or not.
"The suburbs were always a place of opportunity — a better school, a bigger house, a better job," said Scott Allard, an associate professor at the University of Chicago who focuses on social welfare policy and poverty.
A study of big city schools by State Senator Gonzalo Barrientos, a Democrat, found that more incoming ninth graders dropped out than graduated on time.
Having designed an innovative portfolio of schools, Fielding developed a set of big ideas about learning spaces.
"Can you imagine this is the view at your school?" Stewart said, sidestepping a pile of Big Wheels and toys in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains.
