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Such, at least, is the outward appearance of school testing and privatized school plans. Yet in reality neither of these alternatives gets tough on schools—at least not in any effective way. In brief, school testing can signal that there is a problem in a school, but does very little to identify the problem or come up with useful, appropriate solutions. Annual school testing is micro-management without any given direction: Big Brother watching but not giving any useful advice...
...brief moment, it looked like a bad hostage standoff, the cheap fare of Southern California TV, was about to be played out in the Balkans. All day on Saturday, Milosevic and his minions remained squirreled away as the government formulated a plan and as TV cameras watched from a distance. In that vacuum, events spilled easily into farce. Loyalists, mostly elderly socialists for whom Milosevic represents patriotic Serbian ideals, built themselves a bonfire to ward off the chill, scrawling the names of their imagined enemies--Solana (Javier, the NATO Secretary-General), Klark (Wesley Clark, the retired U.S. general) and Monika...
Other stops on Desai's career track were true enough. Desai spent less than a year as editor in chief at TheStreet.com with a brief stint as CEO. He had also been a managing director at Scient for eight months. This didn't faze the universities, because job hopping seemed de rigueur in the Internet world...
...entire album, “Never Young Again.” Rising from the sludge of bad electronica like a Yamaha phoenix, “Never Young Again” is about movement, anticipation, and energy that’s barely held in check. Strings lend a brief, ethereal quality to the music, while youthful energy pulsates, then pauses briefly before resuming again, this time with an almost melancholy maturity subtly supplanting its earlier exuberance...
Protesters huddled together as the night grew colder, listening to brief speeches from students and community activists and distributing literature about the high cost of housing in Boston...