STAR Graduates As a young adolescent, Harold Jean-Louis was terribly introverted.
Teach for America, which sends star graduates from elite universities for two-year stints in rough schools, is being copied around the globe (see article).
It is no coincidence that the vast majority of Star graduates this year were among the cohort of students who earned college credit while still in high school.
Graduates of the organization's leadership institute have gone on to high positions in the Daley administration, with Richard Rodriguez, the president of the city's transit authority, among the course's star graduates.
These were the rigors that helped Brooklyn Prep turn out a constellation of star graduates, among them Joe Paterno, who won more games than any other major college football coach.
Star graduates include Gustavo Dudamel, musical director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Edicson Ruiz, a double-bass player who at 17 became the youngest member of the Berlin Philharmonic.
