At a news conference to release the results of a major report on education reform, Phillip D. Murphy, senior director of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., offers four crucial recommendations he feels the public education system needs to enact in order to revitalize public education.

Posted by Staff on August 23, 2005 |

Murphy argues that more "community schools" are needed. Community schools would involve social services, and offering early screening for developmental challenges, promote home visits and support for struggling families and encourage greater parental involvement in their child’s education. (2:38)

 
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August 23, 2005
« During a teleconference on obesity, Shelley Hearne, of the Trust for America’s Health, suggests that improvements in school nutrition and physical education can help young adults maintain a healthy weight into adulthood.
During a teleconference on obesity, Parris Glendening, former governor of Maryland (D-MD), reports that obesity rates in the US have continued to increase in the past year. »
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