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...Across the country, hundreds of school districts are experimenting with new ways to attract, reward and keep good teachers. Many of these efforts borrow ideas from business. They include signing bonuses for hard-to-fill jobs like teaching high school chemistry, housing allowances ($15,000 in New York City) and what might be called combat pay for teachers who commit to working in the most distressed schools. But the idea gaining the most momentum-and controversy-is merit pay, which attempts to measure the quality of teachers' work and pay teachers accordingly...
...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-all while lifting those all-important test scores...
...options. Guernsey, Ireland, the Isle of Man, Jersey, Luxembourg, Monaco and Switzerland all boast no or low taxes for expats, and are all less than a three-hour flight from London. Cast the net wider and there are dozens of countries offering perfectly legal perks and breaks to attract tax exiles. There are more than 45 recognized tax havens, holding up to $7 trillion in assets, and these numbers are growing. According to the Boston Consulting Group, the number of households with assets of $1 million or more swelled by 14% in 2006 to 9.6 million, while last year...
...said he believed that the fellowships would attract older students by targeting applicants with medical or pharmaceutical experience, and that focusing on life sciences was a good choice for the Business School because of its comparative advantage in the field...
...from interviews with models that would allow readers “to get to know them” to “applicable” articles about exercise and style, Di Pasquale said. The magazine will also contain various self-improvement articles with the primary goal of helping men attract women. Pasquale said that one of his reasons for creating Diamond stemmed from his belief that Harvard’s students were sexually aware, rather than sexually repressed. He said that he sees potential in Harvard women to make Diamond a “really sexy magazine...