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ATLANTA: Eager to reverse its image as a union heavy out of sync with the national need for a revival of the 3Rs, the National Education Association is considering a proposal to streamline the process for giving bad teachers the boot by giving the nod at last to teacher peer reviews. In place for more than 10 years in some Ohio cities not represented by America's largest teacher's union, peer reviews allow teachers in good standing to work with all new teachers and with tenured teachers not making the grade, recommending dismissals. The NEA has long opposed...
...last someone who has the courage to observe not only that Emperor Summer has no clothes but that he is drenched with sweat to boot! Devoted as I am to cooler weather, I'm convinced that we've been conditioned since childhood to worship the most uncomfortable months of the year. Thank you, Roy. MILDRED OSINSKI TEITELMAN Camden...
MATTEL Washington is reluctant to put F.D.R. in a wheelchair, but the toymaker plunks a Barbie look-alike in one--and hot pink to boot...
...first place women meet today's Army is not at boot camp but in America's clean and well-lighted recruiting stations, where teenagers go to get the military sales pitch. When 18-year-old Carissa Schaper walked into one last year in St. Peters, Missouri, she thought she was safe. But as she later told an Army investigator, she was taken aback by what she saw and heard. "It's not a question of whether we can get you into the Army," she was told on her second visit, "but can the Army get into you?" The recruiters seemed...
Another clap on our windows draws our rattled minds in a new direction. Perhaps this wind will keep up and one of us will be pushed from Hopkinton to Boston, getting the American record and a million dollars to boot. Good that the other one is here for a reality check: nice though, but unlikely. We've done the training, slogged through some long runs, felt like death at mile 12 and been congratulated with a second wind by number 15, but American records are a little out of reach...