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...issue is the sale of papers ostensibly labeled as "research only," carrying explicit warnings that the material is not to be submitted as one's own work. One company offers to research any topic, and in one to two weeks, produce a neatly and professionally printed paper "written by college professors," mailed, e-mailed or faxed to the student. In exchange, the student must prepay in full, with rates starting at $5 a page for high school reports...
...order for standards to improve schools, say proponents, three conditions must be met: the standards themselves must be explicit; students must be tested on whether they have met them; and finally, schools and students alike must be held accountable when they fall short of expectations. Among the states, however, the quality of standards varies widely: some are so vague that they can hardly be considered standards at all, while others are highly specific. The accompanying map shows which states so far, in the view of the AFT, have written strong standards and which have not. Most states assess their students...
After reviewing the arguments mustered by the phonics and whole-language proponents, can we make a judgment as to who is right? Yes. The value of explicit, systematic phonics instruction has been well established. Hundreds of studies from a variety of fields support this conclusion. Indeed, the evidence is so strong that if the subject under discussion were, say, the treatment of the mumps, there would be no discussion...
McSherry said she and other members of the firm discussed whether they should send the e-mail her schools have explicit policies forbidding such unsolicited mailings, but she said she didn't think Harvard had me and she didn't check to find...
...Mind Works is stirring up an academic hornet's nest. The ideas that anchor Pinker's book--an artful blend of artificial intelligence and evolutionary psychology--strike many experts as glibly superficial. To Pinker's credit, he has worked hard to make explicit the sometimes tenuous connection between robots, computers and the evolution of the human psyche. Without the models developed by computer scientists, Pinker baldly states at one point, "it would be impossible to make sense of the evolution of the mind...