Eli Broad dangles a carrot in front of L.A. Unified
He donates to Juilliard and promises similar funding here -- if the district better runs its arts programs, especially the new arts high school.
Los Angeles philanthropist Eli Broad will help pay for a New York-based arts program that benefits poor and minority students -- and he said Friday that he and other donors would provide similar funding here if the Los Angeles school district can better manage its own arts programs, especially the new downtown arts high school.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Higher Education Officials Address Legislature (WMTW Auburn)
The top administrators of Maine's two systems of public higher education are reporting to the Legislature on the state of their respective systems. Read more ...
Clever horses
THIS WEEK MARKS the 50th anniversary of "The Elements of Style," the best-selling usage manual consisting of E.B. White's additions to (and revisions of) a 1918 "little book" by William Strunk Jr., once White's professor at Cornell. To celebrate, the publisher is offering a revised, updated . . . Read more ...
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