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With Education for All The comparison in "5 Things We Can Learn from China" between the educational systems in China and the U.S. is off base [Nov. 23]. Unlike in China, in the U.S., every child is entitled to an education regardless of background or learning ability. Early tracking of students in China ensures that only the best and brightest can receive college-prep education; others are put into vocational schools or the workforce. If I taught only students who had parental support and spent hours on homework, I certainly could show higher test scores. But I believe that anyone...
...China Teaches the World The comparison in "5 Things the U.S. Can Learn from China" between the educational systems in China and the U.S. is off base [Nov. 23]. Unlike in China, in the U.S., every child is entitled to an education regardless of background or learning ability. Early tracking of students in China ensures that only the best and brightest can receive college-prep education; others are put into vocational schools or the workforce. If I taught only students who had parental support and spent hours on homework, I certainly could show higher test scores. But I believe that...
...that store's website. If you click on a retailer that's not part of Near, you'll open up that shop's generic website. Either way, you've got the opportunity to make a purchase. "For us, it's an opportunity to reach a new, slightly younger customer base," says Melissa Neill, Jaeger's e-commerce marketing executive...
...read it, it is truly amusing. His book goes, "A is for Amy who fell down the stairs. B is for Basil assaulted by bears. C is for Clara who [wasted away]," on down the alphabet. And I thought to myself, "God bless it. Why couldn't you base a series of crime novels on letters of the alphabet?" (See the top 10 fiction books...
...just last week. The package also includes pictures from long-term art projects like Andrew Moore's photographs from his two-year undertaking in Detroit (which complements our yearlong focus on that struggling American city) and a picture by Richard Mosse of a surveillance balloon on a U.S. military base in Iraq, shot while working on a series on Saddam's palaces...