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...best kind of teacher evaluation out there," but others call it a sham, designed to give unions even more control over personnel decisions. A handful of districts, taking their cue from the national union leaders, have successfully instituted peer review. But more often, local unions have ignored it. Says California state superintendent Delaine Eastin: "[The unions] do realize the issue of accountability is on the stove, but they want years to pass before we do something...
...here's the strangest part about the G.O.P.'s willingness to focus on teachers: Democrats are joining in. In California's Democratic gubernatorial primary, the candidates bickered over whose plan got toughest on middling teachers. The winner, Gray Davis, supports evaluations of public school teachers by their peers and the testing of teachers in their subject every five years. Although the California Federation of Teachers has endorsed Davis in the general election against Republican Dan Lungren, it was a reluctant endorsement; and Davis has accepted it reluctantly. "Teacher testing and evaluation are not things that warm the hearts of people...
Narayanamurti is currently dean of the College of Engineering and a professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB...
Defiant talk in Washington, however, was little comfort to Republicans who saw how well the issue was playing on the campaign circuit. Democratic attacks caught them unawares in special elections in California and New Mexico. John Linder, who chairs the House Republican campaign committee, warned G.O.P. candidates that while strangling the tobacco bill wasn't hurting Republicans, giving aid and comfort to the managed-care companies would. So G.O.P. candidates have been taking cover where they can find it. In the House, Norwood counted 90 Republicans among the 232 sponsors of his reform legislation; in the Senate, no less...
...publicly, Clinton sent shudders through other countries in the region. Japan was worried, Taiwan was dismayed and India was furious. Nor was Clinton's audience of critics back home fully convinced. "There's no question he has given [Beijing] a public relations coup," says Representative Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat. "How the regime responds will determine the ultimate success of the summit." The Chinese, says James Lilley, a former ambassador to Beijing, made Clinton look good, "and they made Jiang Zemin look as though he could handle the Americans...