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...would benefit from Puerto Rican teachers. Boston recruiters hope to hire over 40 new bilingual teachers in the next five years. Although they are eager for applicants, the decision process is far from indiscriminate: Teachers must have past educational experience in Puerto Rico as well as the willingness to commit to a master’s degree and a three-year contract. Despite the need for bilingual education, recruiting teachers should not be considered a cure-all for the persistent achievement gap. Many disparities in educational achievement are attributable not only to linguistic differences but to socioeconomic ones...
...Well, yes and no. Readers may find some of Jiang's purplest prose indigestible. "Desperate cries rose from the herd as the wolves tore into one horse after another - sides and chests spurted blood, the stench of which drove the crazed predators to commit acts of frenzied cruelty," is his description of a wolf attack on a herd of prize horses. "The raw meat in their mouths meant nothing to the wolves: only the murderous tearing of horseflesh mattered." More problematically, the book contains puzzling chunks in which Jiang details his pet theory: that thousands of years of farming have...
...sins that plague our society [March 24]. Believers and nonbelievers have a moral duty to do what is right, an obligation that stems not wholly from religion but more from a universal moral law. There is a higher voice that speaks to all of us every time we commit a deed that is contrary to our place in the world. Why not do the best we can while we are here on earth? John J. Pino, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania...
Volcker and many other observers argue that if a mass-scale financial bailout is needed, it's the White House and Congress that must commit the resources. So far, the main movement in that direction is a proposal from Democrats Barney Frank in the House and Chris Dodd in the Senate to get the Federal Housing Administration to insure new loans for home owners facing foreclosure. But Congress could decide to take over and clean up every troubled financial institution in the land if things got bad enough. That would cost trillions, though, and still won't mean much...
...find it very difficult not to offer an exit door that isn't one of love with one's family," commented French Foreign Minister and trained doctor Bernard Kouchner on radio station RMC Thursday. In the future, he said, France must prevent desperate terminal patients from "having to commit suicide in some kind of clandestine manner in which everyone suffers - especially their loved ones. I have a lot of admiration for Chantal Sébire [and] we must create an exception to the law... that would be human, necessary...