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Last week CBS filed a three-part Eye on Education series on trends in schools. Hari Sreenivasan looked at GPS monitoring to prevent truancy in Dallas. Wyatt Andrews introduced us to Michelle Rhee, the chancellor in the District of Columbia, who is closing schools and firing principals in an effort to shake up her system. Michelle Miller traveled to Lawrence Mass to visit the Esperanza Academy, a parochial all-girls middle school, part of the Nativity Miguel Network. Esperanza students attend for eleven hours each weekday for eleven months out of each year. Now Richard Schlesinger visits the small Arkansas town of El Dorado where Murphy Oil is the major employer. Murphy has established a $50m college scholarship fund that promises free tuition at an Arkansas state university for every single graduate of the town's high school. The upshot has been the approval of new taxes to build a new school, an inflow of new residents seeking the subsidy and an increase in the value of local real estate.
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