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...also makes use of performance-based bonuses, which represent an essential means to incentivize good teaching. Ideally, The Equity Project, which plans to eventually grow to 28 teachers and 480 students, will provide an answer to the educational woes of its pupils. But regardless, we hope that its innovative approach is contagious, and shakes the American educational establishment out of its collective slumber...
...were a state prosecutor and a state representative before becoming sheriff, how has this background affected your approach...
...Among top military and diplomatic strategists, the failure of the current approach in Afghanistan has been accepted as inevitable. Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, Britain's top military officer in Afghanistan, has said, "We're not going to win this war." At best, he says, international troops can hope to reduce it "to a manageable level of insurgency that's not a strategic threat." U.K. ambassador Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, in a leaked diplomatic briefing with the French deputy ambassador, is said to have described the current situation in Afghanistan as "bad; the security situation is getting worse - so is corruption...
...This approach would also be much more palatable to Afghans from the largely non-Pashtun north, who bitterly fought Taliban rule during the civil war and are more likely to launch another war than submit to a Taliban-led government. The Taliban today operate in virtually every Afghan province, and in several places they have been able to create a parallel system of government, but they do not have the support of a majority of Afghans. Most still vividly remember the deprivations of Taliban rule, and if given a choice, they would prefer their current situation to that of eight...
...crisis has over the past few days entered into a phase that makes it intolerable to opt for procrastination and a go-it-alone approach," Sarkozy said. "This plan treats all aspects of the financial crisis." That's not to say further treatment won't be necessary...