We will have a plan as to what we will do differently. We're changing the culture of school,
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There's a need to remember that this is public money funding this research. I had a sense that there was recognition of that today and there was progress in a number of areas that I thought was outstanding.John Simpson
The stem cell institute's recent responsiveness to public input in a number of areas is encouraging. The stem cell oversight committee members finally understand they are a state agency and must involve the public.
John Simpson
The way the applicants were sorted was a mix of backgrounds that we thought was necessary to design this public input process.
John Simpson
N orfolk, VA.--It's hard to tell exactly when the Norfolk Public Schools hit rock bottom, but 1998 was particularly dismal across the board Just 38 percent of third graders passed the state's Standards of Learning, or SOL, test in English 26 percent of eighth graders were proficient in mathematics and a mere 18 percent of high schoolers passed Virginia and U. S. history. For John Simpson, who took over as superintendent that same year with a mandate to boost achievement for all of the district's 37,000 students, the only solution was to completely shake things up. When I arrived, people were unhappy, but many of them had the attitude that given a fairly poor and high-minority population, that might be all that they could do, ... There was no room for excuses anymore.
John Simpson
It smacks of selling access and influence to well-heeled donors.
John Simpson
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