Word: argumentativeness
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...TIME: So, you too are a partisan. Do you have any sympathy for the argument made by Christian activists that our culture and courts favor non-belief, and that Christians need redress to re-establish a level playing field...
...would take to fill out their CUEs studying. Making the evaluations available after final exams would not only alleviate this pressure; it would also allow the incorporation of feedback on a course’s final in a student’s responses. We find the argument that a student’s experience with a course’s final will skew his or her responses unconvincing; final exams are integral to a course’s substance and should be evaluated as such. If anything, the limited window for filling out CUE evaluations causes the sample of responses...
...because I have simultaneously run out of detergent and clean clothes, causing people to mistake my eclectic mix of ketchup, mustard, and grass stains as tie-dye. I’m ashamed to admit that one time I got so angry at my roommate over an argument concerning Harry Potter that I threw his shoes out the window and dunked his toothbrush in the toilet (he only knows about the shoes). While these private shames of mine are difficult for me to confess, the secret that I’m going to share with you today is something that...
There's plenty of argument, however, about how the law seeks to achieve these goals. NCLB takes the Federal Government--which contributes only 9¢ of every $1 spent on U.S. schools--where it's never gone before: telling the states how to measure school success, specifying interventions for failure, mandating qualifications for teachers and even telling the nation how to teach reading. This year, as the five-year-old law comes up for debate, an unforgiving spotlight will be focused on its impact thus far, including its numerous unintended consequences. Many teachers are enraged by the law's reliance...
...city quibbles with the numbers, and there is much argument over what constitutes homelessness. Those who do not have their own housing, yet are able to "double up" with friends or family, are not considered homeless by the city or the federal government. Yet the coalition believes this population should be counted because they are at an equal risk...