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After presenting the legislation, Kelly appeared to attempt to forestall a repeat of the conflict that has divided professors in the past, when members have called the overall quality and reliability of the evaluations into question during Faculty meetings...
...signed up for John’s class, Shakespearean Genres, on the last day of shopping period in an attempt to balance out my Cores and History concentration requirements with a course for which I’d already read all but one of the books. But it only took a few lectures before I started showing up to class early in order to get a front row seat (I had plenty of competition) and lingering at the end of lecture trying to work up the courage to approach my newfound love interest. When John announced that he found...
...much less the ineffable magnetism of a truly brilliant educator. In its absence, policymakers have focused on that current measure of all things educational: student test scores. In districts across the country, administrators are devising systems that track student scores back to the teachers who taught them in an attempt to apportion credit and blame and, in some cases, target help to teachers who need it. Offering bonuses to teachers who raise student achievement, the theory goes, will improve the overall quality of instruction, retain those who get the job done and attract more highly qualified candidates to the profession...
...Monday morning, it looked as though the Australian-trained soldier's belief in his abilities had been ill-founded. Reinado was gunned down outside President Jose Ramos-Horta's compound during what authorities claim was an assassination attempt on the country's President and its Prime Minister, Xanana Gusmão. Reinado's comrades angrily deny this and say their commander had been invited into town for a meeting when he was attacked, and that Ramos-Horta was caught in the ensuing gunfight. Whatever the truth, the incident left Ramos-Horta with gunshot wounds to the stomach and back...
...failed ISF attempt to capture him at the village of Same last year killed five of his men; ever since, Reinado appeared increasingly paranoid. Interviewing him several months after the raid (led by Australian special forces) involved lengthy mobile-phone contacts with intermediaries and sympathetic politicians. After his phone number was secured and contact made, he sent one of his men, disguised as a village local riding a motorcycle, to guide TIME to his hideout...