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When school starts each year, the most important question on the minds of parents and children is, Who will my teacher be? The concern is well founded. Researchers have discovered that school's deepest influence on learning depends on the quality of the teacher. Students lucky enough to have teachers who know their content and how to teach it well achieve more. And the effects of a very good (or very poor) teacher last beyond a single year, influencing a student's learning for years. Put simply, expert teachers are the most fundamental resource for improving education...
...words to fill the blank Valentine's Day card that you just purchased? When the florists asks what you'd like to say on the card with the bouquet, does an embarrassingly long pause ensue? If you have ever found yourself facing writer's block, straining to express your deepest, most romantic sentiments, Internet data indicates that you are not alone...
...without its flaws: originally serialized in an English-language newspaper in Japan, it occasionally repeats itself. Some may also dislike Keene's refusal to share more of his life outside academic or literary circles - particularly as he stresses literature's importance in conveying the communality of our deepest thoughts and emotions. But the history is fascinating, and the literary life Keene has doggedly carved out of it, remarkable...
This isn't the stuff from which stark conclusions can be drawn, I know. In search of more clarity, I called Jim Leach, the former Republican Congressman from Iowa who has long had a reputation as one of Capitol Hill's deepest thinkers...
...emergency rate cut on Jan. 22 shows just how anxious the Fed has become. The reduction by three-quarters of a percentage point was the deepest since October 1984. Bernanke concluded a big dose was needed, fast, to stem a virtual free fall in global stock markets. On Jan. 21 and 22, investors around the world went on a panicked selling spree that resulted in heavy losses. London's FTSE 100 index fell 5.5% on Jan. 21, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index fell more than 13% in two trading sessions; Mumbai's Sensex dropped more than 12% over...