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Investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times and co-author, with Ralph Frammolino, of Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum
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FROM Jason Felch
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More New Blood at the Getty After two years without senior leadership, the Getty Trust is now fully staffed at the top. James Cuno has been President and CEO since last August, and Timothy Potts will become Director of the Getty Museum starting on September 1. Filling that job was what Cuno called his “top priority” when he came on board.
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Charges Dropped for former Getty Curator Marion True As the antiquities curator of the Getty Museum, Marion True was the first American museum official to face foreign charges of conspiring to traffic in looted art. One co-defendant, Giacomo Medici, was convicted on related charges. Another, Robert Hecht, is still on trial. But the trial of True has ended without a verdict.
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Value-Added Teacher Evaluations and the Race to the Top So-called "value-added analysis" is being used all over the country as a measurement of public school-teacher performance. It is strongly promoted by President Obama's Race to the Top in education. LA Unified has not used it, but the Los Angeles Times has created a firestorm after obtaining seven years worth of student test scores in Math and…
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Education Reform and Teacher Accountability Very few public school teachers fail to get tenure, and education reformers have struggled to find an objective measurement of teacher performance. The latest rage, the " value-added analysis ," is based on standardized tests of students in English and Math.
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What Makes a Good Teacher? The Los Angeles Times has created a furor at the LA Unified School District with a lengthy story called " Grading the Teachers : Who's Teaching LA's Kids?" With information provided by the district after a California Public Records Act request, some 6,000 3rd through 5th grade teachers were evaluated using what's called a "value added" analysis.
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Stolen Antiquities in Art Museums LA's Getty and New York's Metropolitan are among the prominent American museums publicly embarrassed recently by revelations of stolen artifacts in their collections. Yesterday, four others were raided by dozens of federal agents in Southern California--with TV news crews notified in advance.
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Feds Raid LACMA After 5 Year Investigation Michael Govan is Director of LACMA, the LA County Museum of Art. But he couldn’t get through the door this morning without the permission of federal agents.
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Getty To Return Prized Antiquities To Italy In the next few months, the Getty Villa in Malibu will no longer be the showcase it was when it re-opened to much fanfare last year. In a deal designed to end ten years of controversy, the Getty has agreed to return forty prized objects to Italy.
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