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...system during the past 18 years. First, she emphasized that the achievement gap in American public schools is “solvable,” and that Americans have “a sense of responsibility to take this problem on.” Second, the TFA administrators have grown to understand the qualities needed to be a great teacher in the context of perpetually under-served schools, something which remains a continual learning process. Last, Kopp emphasized that TFA alone is not sufficient to solve America’s public education crisis. “We need...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kopp Speaks on Public Schools | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

...cookies. Determined to make the long lines more bearable for Missouri voters, the Obama team was also provisioned with coffee, magazines, camp chairs, children's books and trail mix. They said that a licensed massage therapist was planning to tour the urban precincts, giving free neck massages to voters grown weary and stiff while waiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Day Dispatches: It's Morning for the Kenyan Obamas | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

...news tonight is that whether or not there's a Bradley effect, it's nowhere near as big as the Bush effect. And now a guy who would have had to ride the back of the bus in some of this country when he was a kid has grown up to run this country. Historians will remember that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barack Obama Elected President with Mandate for Change | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

...American Gothic,” the Lincoln Memorial, and “My Country ‘Tis of Thee?” The fact is that when politicians stopped supporting artists, they stopped supporting the country’s vision of itself. We may have grown as a country since then, but that does not mean we have grown as a culture...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman | Title: The State of the Art | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...claims hit a record of 5,587, and the commission won nearly $2 million for women who claimed they'd been sold up the creek for being up the duff. Pregnancy claims are still a very small part of the cases the EEOC deals with and haven't grown nearly as fast as charges of false dismissal for retaliation, religion or national origin. Possibly that's because pregnancy discrimination is underreported. "Many women, especially professionals, may view charge filings and litigation as 'career killers,'" says Nazer, "and others may not be inclined to fight an organization with a baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pregnant Women Still Face Job Discrimination | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

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