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 * Shaker Name: Marc Tucker**


 * Basic Work: Marc Tucker is a man of many occupations. Marc Tucker is the President of National Center on Education and Economy. He is also the Vice Chairman of the New Commission Skills of the American workforce.**


 * Key Work: Marc Tucker is fed up with the system because nothing is working with the education curriculum. He is proposing to change the system to make it effective by throwing out the old system to create a whole new system that will work effectively.** **Marc Tucker's proposal differs from what is going on currently in education because today in education teachers are not getting paid more to work with at-risk students. They also do not get paid to work longer hours of overtime.**


 * Key Personnel: William Brock the former senator and Reagan era Labor secretary, John Engler is the National Association of Manufacturers president and former Michigan governor, Joel Klein is the chancellor of New York's public schools, and Anne Bryant is an executive director of the National School Boards Association.**


 * Why/How a shaker? Marc Tucker is a shaker because he cares about the system and he is willing to change the entire system to fit the educational needs of the students and planning new curriculum to adapt the educational aspect.** **Marc Tucker is calling for very controversial reforms which many in the Department of education are not willing to do. These reforms include universal pre-kindergarten** **and continuing** **education for adults.** **He is also calling for state exams that will allow 10th graders that pass them to go on to college. These exams will eventually save the state of New York $67 billion dollars.** **Tucker is also calling for an increase in teacher salary and a reduce in pensions for teachers in order to motivate educators, as well as a restructuring of the curriculum which calls for creativity and moves away from learning facts.** **Others are not following him and do not seem to be adopting his proposals because as of today teachers do not get an increase in their salary and a reduce in their pensions. There is no movement in this practice because if there were any movement going on, teachers would have an increase in their salary and a reduction in their pensions.**


 * Links: http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1215/p01s01-ussc.html**