Hedge fund managers, who have played a dominant role in pushing market-oriented school reforms, like nonunionized charter schools, have had their comeuppance as improving achievement has proven far more difficult than they anticipated.

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They get a better, community oriented school.

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B-School students are usually very analytical and achievement-oriented.

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Kornhauser describes a painting by Thomas Cole, founder of the landscape-oriented, mid-19th-century Hudson River School, depicting a tourist attraction on the Connecticut River.

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"We chose not to put lots of shares in trust for our children because we wanted them to finish high school, go to college, get married and be goal-oriented, " says Knight, whose company ranks 70 on our 200 Best list.

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In our survey, roughly half of all career-oriented moms say that working part-time before children are school-aged is desirable.

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Charles O'Reilly, at Stanford Business School, points out that this cast of mind may suit some employers at deal-oriented investment banks, for instance, or young Internet companies intent on selling out.

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"It is so community oriented, " says Mr. Pagliaro, a member of the district who has brought a school choir to perform for the holiday event.

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The participants of the workshop were oriented with global best practices, structural and non-structural measures including appropriate preparedness measures at school level in the context of school safety.

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