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Direct linkMcKenzie, William – Education Next, 2014
This article presents an interview with Terry Grier, superintendent of the Houston Independent School District (HISD), Texas's largest district. Before taking this post, he had been a principal or superintendent for most of three decades and remains a reformer five years into his leadership. Grier has maintained his passion for improving schools…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Interviews, Profiles, Superintendents
Garcia, Juliet V.; McCauley, Angela K. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2011
In the May/June issue of "Change", US Undersecretary of Education Martha J. Kanter described President Barack Obama's plan for recapturing the position of the best-educated country in the world by 2020. She spelled out the formula for meeting the President's ambitious goal: increasing postsecondary access, improving the quality of a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Presidents, Goal Orientation, Articulation (Education)
St. Clair, Ralf – Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal, 2008
The author argues for the importance of social capital effects being taken into account in assessing the effects of family literacy programs, and literacy programs generally. Focus upon short-term effects such as test scores, which can be considered as assessments of human capital, does not serve literacy education well. It would be helpful to…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Literacy Education, Social Capital, Context Effect
