Later, as Maryland's superintendent, he became the first state chief to propose a statewide mandate to make community-service work a requirement for graduation. Milken also has invested heavily in education and technology ventures. Milken tutored inner-city kids in the 1980s and, after pleading guilty to six felony counts of breaking securities laws in 1990, tutored fellow inmates and their children while serving two years in prison. Roughly 800 schools now use Core Knowledge, and many lawmakers have enlisted Hirsch's help to craft state academic standards. Critics say much of the research touting the program's success is authored by Slavin himself.
Teachers say the curriculum is too restrictive.
The country fixated on fear and loathing in the American high school after this pair killed 13 in their Colorado suburban high school and then turned their guns on themselves. The event capped a decade of school shootings and unraveled the nation's psyche. Violent computer games, the modern family, high school cliques, Hollywood, the National Rifle Association, and other oddities of everyday life. Within weeks of Columbine, a team of Secret Service agents was assigned to study more than a dozen school shootings for patterns in the violence. A retired U.S. Army general, he was one of a number of noneducators named to run city school systems in the '90s.