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...enjoy the rally, I came away with a great deal of respect for the Living Wage Campaign and the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM). These groups have remained committed to their cause throughout the year, and they have repeatedly staged effective, yet respectful protests, which have reflected an impressive grasp of public relations warfare...
With the NCAA Championships beyond the Crimson's grasp, Saturday's B.U. match marked the end of its season...
...curriculum, of course, is not the only reason for Singapore's success, nor is it even the most important reason. The teachers' grasp and feeling for mathematics: that is the crucial issue, already for teachers in the early grades. Here, it turns out, many of the reformers agree with the critics. Teacher training in America has traditionally and grossly stressed pedagogy over content. The implicit message to the teachers is: If you know how to teach, you can teach anything! It will take a heroic effort--by mathematicians and math educators--to change the entrenched culture of teacher training...
Even more important, a new time perspective arose. Such issues as climate, biodiversity and population could be dealt with only in terms of multiple decades, even multiple centuries. Governments limited to next-election thinking had no way to grasp environmental issues. Corporations limited to next-quarter perspective were similarly blinded. Both blundered environmentally because they could not operate on a planetary time scale. Ecological problems were thought unsolvable because they could not be solved in a year...
...Conleys] seem to have a pretty good grasp on the job and what they'll be doing, and the transition shouldn't be that complicated," Risinger said...