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Haynes says that an in-school evaluation likethe King School uses, where the principalevaluates the teachers in a class-room setting, ismore relevant...
...Real Boys, focuses on boys' emotional crises and academic problems in reading and writing. Researchers are exploring not just sexual harassment of girls but bullying and teasing of boys. A rash of school shootings by boys has brought calls to cut back on violent video games and provide more in-school counseling. And parents are objecting to certain excesses: "Is it really fair," wrote Kathleen Parker, a columnist for the Orlando Sentinel, "that one of [my son's] feminist teachers refuses even to use male pronouns, referring to all students as 'shes' and all work as 'hers...
...student in Sprayberry High School in Marietta, Ga., was still in middle school when he got his first lesson in racism. It was then that a group of white kids, whom he describes as part of a growing "skinhead" element in his school, began to harass him. "Hey, Rodney, how does it feel to be a nigger?" they would taunt. "How does it feel to know you'll always be a nigger? Is your mother a nigger too?" After a time Gullatte punched one of the white kids in the face. That earned Gullatte an in-school suspension. Worse, nobody...
...loans now comprise 60 percent of all aid, as opposed to just 40 percent in 1980, and one-third of the loans are now unsubsidized, adding in-school interest charges to borrowers' total debt-and increasing the burden graduates carry when they leave college...
Meanwhile, Rudenstine said he hoped that the education lobby could find a way to "reconceptualize" the budget to defer interest payments for graduate students still in school. According to Rudenstine, current Congressional cuts would make graduate in-school interest the "single largest hit there...