FAREWELL YALE: SCHOOL BASICS GET A NEW LOOK
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Sunday, June 7, 1992
Benno Schmidt, America's most practical theoretician, has suddenly resigned one of the more coveted positions in American intellectual life, the presidency of Yale University. He's decided that it is no longer satisfying to toil in the vineyards of higher education while elementary and secondary schools stagnate. In Schmidt's words, K-12 learning in America is "beleaguered ... mired in politics and bureaucracy, which stifles desperately needed innovation and fresh thinking."
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