subject: Training via conference call [print this page] But the company, which is usually known for its secrecy, has refused to give details of their talks with the government or to explain how it complies with laws in the world that require communications companies to grant government access agencies Lawful Interception systems. This has kept alive suspicions in some foreign capitals and among computer security experts in the United States that RIM has made some concessions to countries.
"There are all sorts of rumors that addresses a number have been beaten all over the world including the United States, but do not know what those agreements are," said Leslie Harris, executive director of the Center for Democracy and Technology which is based in Washington, and board member of the Global Network Initiative, a coalition of businesses and nonprofit groups seeking to protect the privacy and freedom of expression on the Internet.
Ms. Tschannen-Moran is a professor of education at the College of William & Mary, but the couple have never been to a school review, Mr. Moran Tschannen said - although LifeTrek has been hired by a few districts school for strategic planning.
The couple recently founded a training center evocative, and this spring, Ohio put the center in a list of specialists from the school of delivery. In July, the couple changed the name of the Web site schooltransformation.com center. The center can help schools to "facilitate new conversations through listening to the story, expressing empathy, the concept of appreciative inquiry and design," says their website. Much of the training can be done via conference call, Mr. Tschannen-Moran said.
Mr. Duncan helped trigger a stampede in a speech in June 2009, saying that only a handful of groups around the country, had experience in reviews of the school.
"We need everyone who cares about public education," he said, "to enter the business of turning around our underperforming schools. That includes the states, districts, nonprofit, for-profit universities, trade unions and organizations of the letter. "
A company said it had responded to Mr Duncan was called Mosaica Education, which operates charter schools in several states and abroad. Five of its 10 charter schools in Ohio are in academic emergency, and the company has become embroiled in disputes over its management of the cards elsewhere. Its chief executive, Michael J. Connelly said Mosaic had built a strong record of raising achievement.
In March, the company hired John Q. Porter, a former schools superintendent in Oklahoma City, to head a new subsidiary, Mosaica Partners Turnaround. Mr. Porter said that he attended a vendor fair at the Ohio State University in June that had been organized to introduce dozens of new businesses and nonprofit organizations for the preparation of school districts rotations.
"It was like a cattle call," said Porter. "No, actually more like speed dating."
Pearson, the British publishing giant, also had representatives at the fair. With 36,000 employees worldwide, Pearson Education is known for the textbook brands as Scott Foresman and Prentice Hall.
Last year, formed on K-12 Solutions Group, and is seeking contracts to supply school-in at least eight states. Scott Drossos, group president, said that in recent years, Pearson had bought smaller companies that builds the capacity of Pearson to train teachers and to make use of their tests, technology and other products to carry out an effort coherent school improvement.
In interviews last year, Mr. Duncan said he wanted high-quality, nonprofit groups charter school management, such as the KIPP network, which operates 99 schools throughout the country, to join the work school reform.
But Justin Cohen, currency strategist at MassInsight, a nonprofit organization in Massachusetts, said the charter operators nonprofit's most successful new favorite game to review the failing schools, and few had accepted the invitation of Mr. Duncan.
"The vast majority of people entering the field are not willing to do the job," said Cohen.
Recognizing the risks faced by school districts that contract with untested groups, the American Enterprise Institute, a nonprofit conservative politics, issued a report last month urging districts to require performance guarantees, under contractors which do not meet the goals of progress will lose payments.
Dr. Crew new company, the World Association of Schools, who was with Manny Rivera, a former superintendent of schools in Rochester, has signed a contract with the Pueblo, Colorado, district that is backed by a performance guarantee. It states that the partnership will be paid their full fee only if it significantly increases student achievement, Dr. Rivera. The association has also been awarded contracts with districts in Baltimore and Bridgeport, Conn., said.
Dr. Rivera represented the World Alliance on June 30 vendor fair in Ohio, serving as a stand along with 50 other groups.
"It was as if you were selling pencils," he said. "Many of these companies have no idea about how to change schools."
Speaking privately, several U.S. law enforcement and security officials did not say whether the government has a way to decrypt BlackBerry messages, explaining that they were reluctant to disclose whether any particular service posed difficulties. But there have been few signs of public frustration with law enforcement BlackBerry encryption.
Officials said security forces in the United States had an advantage over their foreign counterparts because many of the most popular services of email - Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo - are based here and therefore are subject to court orders. That means the government often can see the messages in encrypted form, even if sent from a BlackBerry device. In addition, officials said that in emergency situations, when lives could be at risk, sometimes called the voluntary assistance of companies, even outside the United States.
David Szuchman, the head of the office computer crime and identity theft in the office of Manhattan District Attorney, said investigators obtained from RIM sometimes records Internet protocol addresses associated with e-mails sent through the BlackBerry system, but were unable to obtain the contents of the e-mails from the company.
Security experts say the BlackBerry system, while safe, is likely to listen. Some even say it's designed to let companies and potentially governments to control the messages, but not necessarily with the cooperation of RIM.
Most experts RIM services to consumers is not discussed, because the messages are largely unencrypted and easy for governments to intercept.
