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...says that in the case of an actual emergency there would be no hesitation in spreading the news to the community...
Standardized tests alone will not improve the education of this country’s children. Tests of reasonable length might be good as diagnostic measures—to pinpoint which students, classes or schools need extra help. But actual improvements in education can only occur when reforms are made. Tests need to be combined with better staff training, better teaching, better use of resources and better organization to have any significant effect. And while standardized tests can be used for diagnostics, by only testing certain skills, they are not full measures of student achievement. These imperfect tests should...
...much of a legal barrier to collectors. The companies know that statutory damages against them for any violations are capped at $1,000, a figure small enough to make fair-debt-collection lawsuits just part of the cost of doing business. Individuals who have been harassed can sue for actual damages and might win more, but that route is difficult and time consuming. A better first move is to try to make collector calls vanish in other ways...
...were happy to pay for "eyeballs"--sheer audience size. Never mind that the impact was next to impossible to track. Today eyeballs are still an important factor, but retailers prefer performance-based deals--paying for "click-throughs" (portal visitors clicking on one of their links) and, in some cases, actual sales. "Back in the go-go days of the Internet, retailers would pay for the halo effect of being on a big portal like AOL," says David Bolotsky, who headed Goldman Sachs' U.S. retail group before launching UncommonGoods, an online and catalog gift shop, in 1999. "When they realized they...
...major problem with teaching quality is in departments that have too few graduate students to act as teaching fellows for its undergraduates. Another two months with the same flawed hiring system will not help those departments. They require an actual commitment to recruiting quality TFs from outside of the department and outside the University...