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Science 4 December 1998:
Vol. 282. no. 5395, p. 1802
DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5395.1802
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SCIENCE AND SCHOOLS:
Urban Districts Grab the Spotlight

Jeffrey Mervis

The National Science Foundation's flagship educational effort--the Urban Systemic Initiatives program, launched in 1994 to target the 25 cities with the largest number of poor children in the country--has a big advantage over its statewide programs. City schools are usually run by a single administrator or school board--a definite advantage when you're trying to cut through layers of bureaucracy and overturn the status quo. State systemic efforts, in contrast, must negotiate among several, often competing, sources of power.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)