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...Tanaka's fatal error, which is starting to show, is that he thought public adoration was enough. He forgot that he has to make use of that popularity to bring the recalcitrant bureaucrats on board and to convince his legislative opponents that they'd be fools to stand in the way of a popular Governor. In March, lawmakers brutally destroyed his plan to stop construction of the Shimosuwa dam. There wasn't a thing Tanaka could do about it but grouse. "The general contractors and construction companies think that more highways and bridges will bring on prosperity and recovery...
...Transparency at the Council," stated that the membership of the Undergraduate Council's Student Affairs Committee was not available online. The membership list can be inferred from the council's online roster, which lists a committee affiliation by the name of each member. The Crimson regrets the error...
...graduation requirements may still be denied a diploma on the basis of a single standardized test. This practice places far too much weight on a few hours of a student's entire academic career. And the recent news that companies designing and grading these tests have experienced unprecedented error rates makes high-stakes testing even more of a bad idea...
...Aware of the propensity for human error in testing and scoring, the American Educational Research Association--the largest national educational research group--specifically warns educators against making high-stakes decisions based on one test. School districts lack the resources of testing companies and can't check up on their work. Yet despite this warning and recent errors, proposals for high stakes testing persist. The plan offered by President George W. Bush would mandate yearly testing of students in grades 3 through 8; while such testing would be useful for diagnostic purposes, Bush's suggestion to tie federal funding...
...seen here as an error in international terms, but Israeli editorials and politicians are concerned that it's an escalation that leaves little room for maneuver. One asked, if this is the response when a terrorist bomb kills five people, what are we doing to do when a terrorist bomb kills 20 - drop a nuclear bomb on Ramallah? There's a concern that this escalation has come too early, and too cheap. And that it hasn't done very much to help Israel's situation...