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...like any drug, I soon needed a bigger fix...
...college graduates but would also help to mitigate attrition rates due to teacher burn-out. More resources for schools—which currently can be purchased at the principals’ discretion with bonus money—would also help students learn more effectively. While there is no quick fix to the education industry’s current crisis, radical and new solutions must be sought. Employing parallel tracks of individual and school merit pay in the short term is one such means of ensuring that schools fulfill their ultimate goal of providing every child with a good education...
...whose job would that be? Well, it's your job, U.S. taxpayers! If this seems unfair, that's because it is. Mortgage brokers, investment bankers, house flippers and other sharpies got rich causing this mess. Now all of us have to pay to fix it. The one possible bright side is that, if done right, bailouts don't ultimately have to cost a lot of money. If the government buys assets when everybody's panicked and sells them when markets have calmed down again, it could even turn a profit...
...students leaving the public school system every year for greener pastures, it’s become far too easy to simply label that system “broken” and follow suit. Renewed community-wide participation in state education would be accompanied by a sense of urgency to fix that system’s myriad problems. Of course there is a place in the world for private schools; it’s simply important, in the name of equal opportunity, to ensure that the discrepancy between them and their public counterparts should never grow too wide...
...That's a lot of money we can be using for wildlife conservation.' RACHEL LEVIN, spokeswoman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, on why the agency won't spend $300,000 to fix a duck stamp that mistakenly lists a phone-sex number instead of a number to re-order stamps...