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...pace of the rest of the class. Ideally, schools wouldn’t need to use test scores or report cards to measure teacher performance, and monetary rewards would not be necessary. But with the educational system in crisis, critics who bemoan the shortcomings of standardized testing simply cannot afford to ignore that such tests do provide benchmarks for basic proficiency, from which schools can evaluate their own performance. Merit pay systems may leave much to be desired, but they provide a notable avenue to address the failures of our current system, in which children who are several grade levels...
...Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds said she has not heard of students with specific family problems stemming from the downturn. Finally, election results for the parliamentarian, who runs the proceedings for the faculty meetings, will be announced soon, according to FAS spokesman Robert P. Mitchell. Official word cannot be given until the chosen candidate has been informed of his or her appointment. —Staff Writer Benjamin M. Jaffe can be reached at bjaffe@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff Writer Esther I. Yi can be reached at estheryi@fas.harvard.edu...
...walls as protection, but we do not have the resources,” Tong said. “We just tell people to move back [from the shore], but we cannot keep moving for we are in danger of falling off the other side...
...identification of the just society,” Sen said. He summed up this transcendental view of justice by quoting Thomas Nagel’s conclusion that “global justice is not a viable subject for discussion, since the elaborate institutional demands needed for a just world cannot be met at the global level at this time.” Sen said he considers the transcendental theory’s focus on rules, rather than on their effect on people, a major shortcoming. “Justice cannot be indifferent to the lives of people...
...launch unfounded attacks against their opponents or make false claims about their own records. Broadcasters are actually obligated to run their ads, even those known to be false. Under the Federal Communications Act, a station can have a blanket policy of refusing all ads from all candidates. But they cannot single out and decline to air a particular commercial whose content they know...