Thanks to reform-minded school leadership, the public school system has improved and become a magnet for teacher talent.
Reform-minded school leaders took the opposite approach, insisting that students in the South Bronx should be held to the same standards as kids in Scarsdale.
There are certain steps a reform-minded school system can take to improve the quality of education, like adding teachers, cutting bureaucracy and introducing a new curriculum.
He had no architectural background or training, nor any intention of becoming a historian of the high-minded school of Kenneth Clark, John Summerson or John Pope-Hennessy.
They both were critics of the open-minded school, mostly generous in their judgments, abundant in their generalizations about life beyond the subject at hand.
Digging is what moles do, and when they live on a scheduled ancient monument that can be quite helpful, at least to the Birley-minded school of thought.
Teachers first won tenure rights across much of the United States early in the 20th century as a safeguard against patronage firings in big cities and interference by narrow-minded school boards in small towns, said Jeffrey Mirel, a professor of history and education at the University of Michigan.
Dunleavy, who grew up playing basketball in the parks near his family's home in Brooklyn, sees vast untapped potential and hopes to model Tulane — a private, academic-minded school — after Duke and Villanova, two programs that he knows well thanks to two of his sons.
The state school was named the most sports-minded school in Europe in 2005 and Mr Mansfield says it is one of few that competes with public schools in national sport.
One could make the case we are commemorating its history-making achievement of voting in like-minded school board members.
