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New DC schools chief pledges to continue reform efforts Posted: 22 Nov 2016 12:17 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time since Michelle Rhee was brought in to shake up public schools in the nation's capital nine years ago, an outsider will take charge of a school district that's become synonymous with hard-charging urban education reform.

Have Public Universities Lost Their Focus? Posted: 22 Nov 2016 08:00 AM PST Since the 1970s, a "doom loop" has pervaded higher education, writes Christopher Newfield in his new book The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them. Newfield, a professor of American studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, calls this loop "privatization"—the hidden and overt ways that "business practices restructure teaching and research."

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