It is crazy when some big-city schools don't work and people don't want to be in them.

Many neoconservatives still rue that deregimentation, particularly as it affected poor, big-city schools.

After the 1960's, big-city school systems no longer took it for granted that they would hire insiders to run the schools.

And as a former principal of a big-city school I can tell you that you need open space.

No amount of money is going to improve big-city public schools until parents can hold those schools accountable.

Others respond to teachers they find more caring and to classes that are smaller than those in big-city schools.

Most officials of big-city schools interviewed yesterday said they had not yet seen the report, but those who had, expressed support.

A lot of businesses do not want to give to the traditional big-city school.

So if you ask Professor Slavin whether out big-city schools can be saved, he gives two answers.

A generation ago the hope for big-city schools was integration.