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...RHEE AND REFORMERS like her, the struggle to fix America's failing school system comes down to a simple question: How do you get the best teachers and principals to work in the worst schools? In her quest to figure this out, Rhee has already suffered a major setback. Earlier this year, she proposed a revolutionary new model to let teachers choose between two pay scales. They could make up to $130,000 in merit pay on the basis of their effectiveness--in exchange for giving up tenure for one year. Or they could keep tenure and accept a smaller...
...After an earlier mistrial, five former leaders of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development were found guilty of funneling some $12 million to Hamas. A jury convicted the group on 108 criminal counts, including money-laundering--a resounding victory for the Bush Administration in the biggest terrorism-funding case since 9/11. The defendants maintained that Holy Land is a humanitarian organization, and say they will appeal the verdict...
...says that earlier this year, 19 teenagers went missing from her neighborhood. They had made a pact to leave Cuba by raft. Months later, not one of them had called to say they had arrived in the States. The mothers in the neighborhood knew their children had drowned...
Late in my travels, I was on a rural highway on the way to Santa Clara, crammed in the backseat with Oscar, his wife Yusimi and their radiant daughter Zenia, 5. We'd been out late dancing a few nights earlier, and Yusimi was giving me a postmortem on my performance. (Her bemused verdict: "You have Caribbean feet, but I have no idea what your butt is doing.") Just then, "La Jinetera" by the staunchly anti-Castro Miami singer Willy Chirino came through the speakers. It must have been the driver's CD--the song would never have been allowed...
President-elect Barack Obama filled the last of the four top economic positions Monday, announcing that his Council of Economic Advisers will be chaired by University of California at Berkeley economist Christina D. Romer, who was a subject of national indignation earlier this year when Harvard did not offer her a tenured professorship. Economists, including Harvard professor N. Gregory Mankiw, a former CEA chief under President Bush, have hailed Obama’s pick as an “excellent choice.” Though the role of the CEA has been diminished since former President Clinton created the National...