Facade of Excellence. (Feature).

Facade of Excellence. (Feature).

Facade of Excellence. (Feature)‪.‬

Education Next 2003, Summer, 3, 3

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Stuyvesant High, one of New York City's elite exam schools, enjoys an ultramodern building, influential alumni, and the city's brightest students, If only it could also escape the corrosive rules of the teachers' contract. ON A BITTERLY COLD Saturday morning in December 1995, I wished my son Jonathan good luck and then watched him join a long line of students at the entrance to Stuyvesant High School in lower Manhattan, They were all waiting to take the admissions test for New York's three vaunted" exam schools

GENRE

Professional & Technical

RELEASED

2003

22 June

LANGUAGE

EN

English

LENGTH

17

Pages

PUBLISHER

Hoover Institution Press

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168.4

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