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...pressure's telling. Only 10 or 20 years ago, Australia's biggest problem with teachers was recruiting them - encouraging enough brainy high-school graduates to study for a career in front of a blackboard. Today there's no shortage of trainees - high demand for places in education courses at universities has forced up entry scores to record levels. The concern for policymakers is retaining teachers, who are leaving the profession in droves. University of Sydney researcher Robyn Ewing says younger teachers are leading the charge: having studied for four years or more, at least 30% quit in their first three...
...Tonight Show last week, just before he rolled tape of the President walking hand in hand with Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. The First Lady said she thought it was sweet. Most everyone else this side of Riyadh was appalled. "It was like fingernails scratching on a blackboard, magnified 10 million times," the religious conservative Gary Bauer told me. "You wonder if the folks at the White House have any idea of the impact an image like that has out in Middle America...
Ruth has astounded the faculty at St. Hugh's with the range of her intellect and the ease with which she masters subjects. In one seminar, while other students were struggling with a complex theorem that an academician was elaborating on a blackboard, Lawrence pointed out an error that the lecturer had made. She raced through Oxford's three-year course in two years. Her test papers were spun out with little apparent need to pause over the most puzzling problems. "I think while I write," she explains with a shrug. Mathematics appeals to her spirit of discovery, she says...
Deficit Mending Last week, during negotiations among E.U. Finance Ministers, Luxembourg 's Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker sounded like a calculus professor who'd run out of blackboard space. He's struggling with a difficult problem: how to revamp the stability and growth pact - the much-violated E.U. doctrine designed to govern fiscal rectitude - a task that falls to Juncker while his country holds the rotating E.U. presidency. The pact caps euro-zone countries' deficits at 3% of GDP; Germany and France want to change the rules on what spending gets counted in deficit calculations. Germany, for example, wants...
...last night’s meeting, Mahan unveiled a blackboard sketch of the three decentralized branches, which elicited whistles from council members...