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...Schuster also said that when there is only one teacher per subject at a school, the opportunities for collaborative work among teachers are limited as well. Some full-time teachers are also asked to teach more than one subject or grade, making it difficult to hire and maintain qualified staff, especially because teaching multiple subjects requires multiple credentials...
...Flores and McLeod say their own difficult, at times even “terrifying,” transitions to Harvard from communities that they felt did not adequately prepare them academically led them to consider proposing a pass/no-record system for first-semester freshmen—a system MIT has in place—as a way of easing the first-year experience...
...derives a lot of its credibility from the fact that students fund it by choice, not compulsion. However, it has become progressively become more difficult to opt of the fee over the past few years. In 2006, one only needed to click a link the termbill Web site in order to opt out of the fee. By 2007, that link disappeared. Instead, one had to write an email explaining why he or she did not want to pay the $75. Moreover, by 2008 one had to handwrite that same letter and send it to the Student Receivables Office. There...
...Some may argue that sending an email or a handwritten letter to the Student Receivables Office is not an extremely difficult task. These people would miss the point. The UC shouldn’t look on in silence while the administration limits their constituency’s freedom with regard to the fee’s payment. Such quiet complicity makes the Council appear desperate for funding, and happy to wrest money from students who otherwise wouldn’t want to pay. The UC constitution claims that it represents the entire undergraduate student body, not just students who fund...
...question is whether this surge in prosecutions and publicity is a case of due process finally starting to work - or a hurried effort designed to tie Obama's hands as he tries to shut the facility. Once they are under way, Obama could find it politically and legally difficult to stop the controversial proceedings or shift them out of Guantánamo. "All this activity, and an expanding list of trials that cannot possibly conclude before the next President takes office, is irresponsible," says Adam Schiff, a California Democrat and member of both the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees. Saying...