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City Lit: Reformulaic

A book review of Spinning Wheels: The Politics of Urban School Reform, by Frederick M. Hess, Brookings Institution Press, 1999, 228 pages, $39.95.

Hire Education

For years, vocational education was the school system’s detention room. New attention to academic standards is changing that–but preparing students for work has dropped by the wayside.

Asleep on the Job

States are racing to deliver the benefits of a new federal job-training law to the unemployed. Except New York, that is, where efforts are stuck in the starting gate.

LEADING SUGGESTIONS

Put together a court deadline and some new discussions in front of City Council Speaker Peter Vallone–and you still don’t have much hope for a new lead paint bill from…

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