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...Second game, I thought we came out a lot better,” Shaw said. “First off, we scored and responded to their runs. We came back and kept scoring on them, kept the pressure...
Head teaching fellow Ayse Cansu Aydede ’11 added that she believed this change will allow students to respond better to the qualitative feedback they receive, as they will not be distracted with points lost in problem sets and quizzes...
Highly effective teaching should be the goal, and shabby instruction that handicaps students is simply unacceptable. Currently, union contracts make it notoriously difficult for school officials to take underperforming teachers out of the classroom, except in the most egregious cases. If providing a better education for all students is the goal, then new reform must also make it easier for school officials to fire inadequate teachers. Specifically, teachers should be reevaluated frequently and should have to reapply for their position periodically. Regular job evaluations are accepted as standard protocol in many other professions, and there is no reason teaching should...
...clubs, UEFA added in the recent report, "rather than to support investment or spending." That's because the new owners piled the debts incurred in buying the clubs onto the teams' own finances, limiting the cash available for buying new players and therefore the clubs' ability to compete with better-endowed rivals. (See a group-by-group guide to the 2010 World...
...voters look set to unseat Labour in part as punishment for the debt-ridden state of the economy, soccer supporters' patience for massive borrowing by football clubs - and the owners behind it - has expired. Asked in a March YouGov poll whether they felt their club would be in better hands if it was owned cooperatively, 56% of fans expressing an opinion believed it would...