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Earlier this week, President Barack Obama announced a series of major reforms to the American public education system. In an address to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, he proposed increased spending for the hiring of new teachers as well as greater funding for Head Start and other early childhood education programs. Especially promising, his plan would institute merit pay for teachers in up to 150 school districts, lift the limits on charter schools that exist in some states, and make it easier for schools to fire underperforming teachers. We are encouraged by President Obama’s commitment...
...there are still some improvements that could be made. As an Anthropology concentrator, Silverman says she feels that the information about entrepreneurship on campus is not always readily available to her. However, she is unsure about whether or not this is a pressing issue that the college needs to address. “I don’t feel like that’s been a barrier,” she says. “I feel like it’s just the way things have worked...
...trying to address the community’s broad needs, and find a solution that is workable and respectful of everyone’s points of view,” Martin said...
...replying to the pillories of Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal’s lilting response to President Obama’s address to the nation, blogger Ann Althouse asked, “Why are all these people so confident that they are not manifesting racism?” Thus began another episode of race-card Tourette’s. Though many hoped that such accusatory innuendo would cease with Obama’s election, its metastasis to the right has exposed its severity...
...women’s groups and invited Dean Avery. Universally, we all felt we needed more institutional support and funding, a centralized place to meet, new support for sexual violence issues, more faculty mentors and role models, and a women-friendly campus. Faust asked Avery how she was to address these students’ concern...