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Most of the time, Kelly Scott doesn't worry much about her daughter Bailey, an energetic 10-year-old who loves to ski near her family's home in Maine. But once a year, Scott remembers the day when Bailey, then a week old, had surgery to reverse the position of the two largest arteries in her heart. Bailey was part of a clinical trial at Children's Hospital Boston, and annual check-ups let researchers track her progress. Scott found out about the trial in the usual way - her doctors told her about it. "They didn't give us many choices," she says. "It didn't seem that there were any." |
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| Counterterror
Tactics Target Foreign Students College Confidential |
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| by Jyoti Thottam | ||
The year was 1950, and Pravin Bhatt remembers being the only Indian in New Orleans. He was a young doctor from a small town in Gujarat, in western India, and Tulane University was the only school in the United States teaching tropical medicine. "I just wrote to them, and two or three weeks later, I got a telegram," Bhatt says. |
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| How
Charter Schools Weaken the Teachers’ Union Loophole 101 |
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| by Jyoti Thottam | ||
Union busting isn't usually the subtlest activity. The weapons tend to be blunt (mass firings and intimidation), and the culprits tend to be obvious (big corporations with deep pockets). But anyone concerned about the future of New York City's teachers' union ought to look past the recent battle over Edison Schools to a loophole in the state's charter school law that could do as much to undermine unions as any for-profit corporation. |
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