Not bad for a kid abandoned by his parents and sent to reform school in his teens.
Many of the witnesses were former residents and staff at Elan, a reform school for troubled teenagers in Maine.
They in turn shipped the boys to what they thought was a prep school in rural Kentucky but turned out to be a Baptist reform school.
He was named after Brendan Behan, the Dublin writer whose greatest work, Borstal Boy, is an evocative memoir about being confined to reform school for being a rebel.
Refurbish state departments of education to give them the tools to truly reform school systems rather than add layer upon layer of new rules and bureaucratic red tape.
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And by the time she was nine, she was in a reform school and was sent to the House of Good Shepherd for Colored Girls in Baltimore for a year, which was quite a dour place, I think.
That stunt put him in reform school, followed by a series of foster homes in the seaside town of Maldon, where he joined a local art club under the tutelage of a landscape painter trained at the Royal College of Scotland.
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At thirteen, he recalls, he was nabbed while robbing a Jordan Marsh department store. (He and his friends learned to hide out in stores at closing time, steal their merchandise, and then break out during the night.) The remainder of his childhood was spent mostly in the state reform school.
Malloy and other state officials to discuss education reform and school security with parents, students, and school officials.
This is followed by a push to reform public school systems by introducing more charters, voucher programs, or virtual schools.
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And just the competition alone has actually spurred 46 states so far to initiate legislation designed to reform the school system.
Legislation to reform the school system may have been rushed through Parliament, but the momentum has yet to be felt in the world outside Westminster.
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One can only wonder how much faster progress on tax reform or school choice would have been if the political capital devoted to income inequality had been devoted to fighting entrenched institutional resistance to useful reforms.
You know, when it comes to education, we need parents who are willing to read to their children and help with their homework -- regardless of how much government is going to reform the school system -- if we're going to compete.
The city became a laboratory for school reform, with experimental programmes paid for by philanthropic organisations.
Noguera and Fine remind us that school reform efforts have been largely a bipartisan effort.
Fordham Institute and a frequent contributor to this page on school reform, likes Mr. Duncan.
Because the donors and charities associated with school reform are very wealthy they must have impure motives.
Despite this acknowledgment, I took a decidedly partisan approach to school reform over the past few months.
He said the children's agenda had lost out to "the bulldozer that was the school reform programme".
Like Tulane President Scott Cowan, Walker principal Mary Laurie is optimistic that the school reform plan will happen.
But Ms. Weingarten's real concern is that Mr. Loeb puts his own money behind school reform and charter schools.
With a political storm brewing over school reform plans, the commissioner is keen to engage children in the debate.
Stimulus money found its way into school reform, a smart grid for electricity and expanded access to broadband internet.
Meanwhile, the labour peace that has made school reform possible has grown tenuous.
Gore, campaigning in Michigan, a state with a March 11 Democratic Caucus, said that Bradley is a Johnny-come-lately on school reform.
In any case, the broader point here is that skepticism is good, and a generally conservative approach to school reform is wise.
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As with almost all social reforms, the cause of school reform is best served by under-claiming what any particular reform can achieve.
But accountability is likely to remain a big part of school reform.
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Mr Davis intends to make school reform the centrepiece of his governorship.
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