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...good ol’ boys at the National Education Association (NEA), the largest teacher’s union, love this idea??so much so that they’ve been proposing it for nearly two decades. After what could be remembered by NEA apparatchiks as “the great betrayal,” when Democrats including Kerry voted for the NCLB’s planks on teacher and school accountability, the nominee-to-be has reversed himself, crudely plagiarizing the NEA’s position papers and taking them as his own plan...
...Students can now use Crimson Cash at Uno’s, Bertucci’s, Noch’s, Crazy Dough and C’est Bon. We decided to begin our night with an Italian feast at Bertucci’s. Everybody else had apparently had the same idea??the line stretched out the door and into the hideous freezing cold. I squeezed through the crowd only to discover that there was a 40 minute wait. “You’re supposed to call ahead on weekends,” a girl in the line...
...Romney’s paternalistic proposal would attempt to involve parents by force; under his plan, children would be excluded from the new all-day kindergartens if their parents were unwilling—or more likely, unable—to attend two days of parenting-skill training. This idea??s degeneracy is made clear by observations almost too simple to escape even Romney himself, namely that parents who live in under-performing school districts often can’t afford to sacrifice two days’ worth of wages and that compulsory presence at parenting school smacks...
...would like to tell President Summers that I am a member of this community, and that my idea??one of those ideas to which he has pledged such openness—is simple: I should have been allowed to march. Excluding me as a student at the Kennedy School from bearing the flag of my nation was wrong...
Once, when an extremist leader in Pakistan sought to lecture in one of her classes, Stern was very open to the idea??though technical complications prevented it from panning...