Jay Greene
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"Jay H. Greene" is a retired NASA engineer. He worked as a Flight_controller#Flight_Dynamics_Officer_.28FDO_or_FIDO.29/FIDO flight controller during the Apollo Program and a Flight_controller#Flight_Director_.28FLIGHT.29/flight director from 1982 to 1986, most notably as ascent flight director during the Challenger accident in 1986. Greene worked for four years as a manager on the International Space Station project and received several awards for his work including the NASA Distinguished Service Medal. After his retirement in 2004 he served as a part-time consultant on the Exploration Systems Architecture Study. NASA Associate Administrator Rex Geveden described him as "a famous technical curmudgeon in the Agency."

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They have a reasonably accurate picture of their own circumstance.

Several of San Antonio area districts fare better than many other urban districts.

It does give us a perspective that we didn't have, which is the perspective of the student who drops out.

It is a mistake to treat the dropout problem as a fundamentally different kind of problem than other problems in our schools - it's a different symptom of the same disease.

It's pretty bad. Large districts in general are doing less well and Los Angeles is toward the bottom of that list.

It's a fairly large difference, particularly when you consider that unlike differences across racial and ethnic groups, boys and girls are raised in the same households, so it's not so easy to explain the differences by their community, or their income level.

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