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...MCAS does not care if a student understands multiplication; it only cares that a student knows the multiplication tables. Public school students know this vital distinction better than proponents of MCAS. From the perspective of a 16-year-old, what is the better use of time: working to earn a wage or staying in a school that is as intellectually engaging as basic training, only to pass a test and end up with a slightly better job—if not the very same...
...Greek Cypriot teens in broken English. "We are taught the Greeks will kill you," he explained. "They're taught the Turks will kill you. In fact, we have no problem with each other at all!" Greek Cypriot politicians say Denktash provisionally opened the border - visitors cannot stay overnight - to earn back public goodwill after he torpedoed a U.N. reunification plan earlier this year. Whatever the motivation is, it is working, for now. Pantakis' daughter carried a bouquet of daisies for the Turkish Cypriot family "occupying" her family home. Returning from his own pilgrimage, Greek Cypriot Yannis Adamu held...
Employees who earn higher salaries are not without substantial gripes of their own, and complain that their struggles have been ignored by a University preoccupied with placating its lower-end workers after the public relations debacle of the sit-in. And while English courses are an affordable aid to some workers, addressing many mid-level employees’ complaints could prove a much more expensive—and less palatable—venture...
...week and a half ago Alexander Pring-Wilson had plans to earn a Harvard degree, attend law school in Colorado and live within a half-day’s drive of his family...
...that they can be can cost them dearly: 41% report that they earn less while deployed than in their civilian jobs, according to the latest Pentagon survey, which predates the massive call-ups that began with 9/11. Employers are required by law to hold their jobs but are not required to make up the difference between what their workers were earning and what the military pays. Some employers do. When Tyson Foods CEO John Tyson learned last fall that about-to-be-activated employee David Rook was being forced to sell his family's dream house, the poultry firm instituted...