Paul Houston
Paul Houston
Paul L. Houston is Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The Georgia Institute of Technology. Most recently, he was Dean of the College of Sciences at Georgia Tech. He started his professorial career at Cornell University in 1975 following undergraduate study at Yale, doctoral work at MIT, and postdoctoral research at the University of California at Berkeley. He was formerly Chair of the Cornell Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Senior Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences,...
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This kind of thing distracts energy and resources for defending yourself. Sometimes there are important precedents to be set, but sometimes people are just trying to have their way with the districts.
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Manny Rivera represents high-quality leadership in our nation's public schools. Since his return to Rochester, Manny has focused on raising achievement standards ... Despite pervasive poverty ? Rochester ranks 11th in the nation in child poverty ? the district has achieved dramatic improvements in the number of students passing the statewide exams in the past three years.
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The results clearly prove that his leadership has been successful. The (Rochester) district has achieved dramatic improvements in the number of students passing the statewide exams in the past three years.
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As children are growing up in an increasingly diverse world, they need to have exposure to people different than themselves. I'm not saying it can't happen outside the public system, but it happens easily in the public system in many cases.
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We definitely didn't put it on the schedule because we thought it was going to be an easy win. We knew we were going to have our hands full but we played them very competitively.
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The single largest variable that predicts SAT scores is family income. If you want higher SAT scores, you need to get your kids born into wealthier families. You know, it's great to tell kids to pull themselves up by their own boot straps, but you better put boots on them first.