Next week, before MPs disappear from Westminster for the Christmas break, announcements on high speed rail and perhaps details of the government's reverse on school sports funding will follow.

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In addition, courses for pregnant teenagers and mothers on baby and childcare, and a concerted drive to reverse policies which prevent pregnant teenagers staying in school, and the foundations for a revolution in teenage girls' lives are in place.

CNN: Girls at risk: Starting a revolution for teenage mothers

But over the next two decades the school system shifted from high autonomy and low accountability to the very reverse: low autonomy and high accountability.

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Newark, a struggling urban school system splintered along political lines, has drawn national attention as it attempts to reverse course.

WSJ: Newark Schools Standoff

Roughly the reverse of Mr Mintzberg's complaint is the criticism advanced by Rakesh Khurana of Harvard Business School, who is writing a book on why management has failed to develop as a profession.

ECONOMIST: Business schools

More depressing for the purists is that I only see four ways to reverse the trend: (1) State legislative subsidies to keep a state-supported school within the existing conference due to other state schools they play and revenue retention from those games (2) private business subsidies, (3) donations from the general public and high net worth individuals, or (4) a conscious decision to deemphasize sports.

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