When Say Yes to Education, a New York-based nonprofit, took its program for school reform to Syracuse, N.Y., one of its nonnegotiable conditions was that the district stretch learning time into the late afternoon and the summer. Say Yes based its demand on the assumption that urban students like those in Syracuse generally require more […]
Gene I. Maeroff
Gene I. Maeroff is the author of the recently published book Reforming a School System, Reviving a City: The Promise of Say Yes to Education in Syracuse. He was also the founding director of the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media at Teachers College, Columbia University.
