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...district provides funding to make sure kids don't get left out of sports, field trips, school dances or special projects like the science fair. And when two homeless students at Cityview Performing Arts Magnet won a regional science fair, teacher Pamela Holland-Mills did their laundry so they would have clean clothes for the celebratory dinner...
...first rule of paint-by-numbers poetry is distinctive images, Nilsson appears to have taken this rule to heart, and too dramatically at that. Her images are certainly distinctive—from “The Procures,” “a mountain sitting in a fair sky, girls / of gentle birth sheathed in goatskin and tulle.” The latter image is one of several in this collection that allude to our distant, primeval past. Yet these distinctive images are lost by dilution, by the worst kind of overkill. Take this stanza from...
...Merit pay would go a long way toward correcting this imbalance. Under the system President Obama has proposed, teachers whose students show significant improvement would be eligible for performance-based bonuses. This is only fair: A higher quality of work should be rewarded with greater pay, just as it is in nearly every other career. Merit pay incentivizes greater teacher effort, encourages high-achieving college graduates to become teachers, and makes it easier to identify the worst teachers and fire them. This improves overall teacher quality and benefits students...
...other ways we’re not as tied down by adult responsibilities,” says Shankar G. Ramaswamy ’11. “And I think that’s an advantage to being a student entrepreneur.” While undergraduates certainly have their fair share of academic and extracurricular responsibilities, the student lifestyle removes many of the responsibilities of adult, post-college life, such as earning a basic living or providing for a family. The security of a college environment allows students to explore their entrepreneurship interests without the added pressure of meeting these...
...getting the moderates on board is not just about selling the plan to the public - it will also involve a fair amount of arm-twisting and horse-trading. On Tuesday afternoon, according to Politico.com, Obama told a gathering of moderate House Democrats not affiliated with the Blue Dogs, "I am a New Democrat," harking back to the centrist moniker coined by Bill Clinton...