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Singapore, top-ranked in math by the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, treats teaching similarly. When I visited Singapore's National Institute of Education, the nation's only teacher-training institution, nearly all the people I spoke with described how they were investing in teachers' abilities to teach...
Of course, I should expect such treatment. I am a foreigner, pursuing my scholarly endeavors here at the pleasure of your government. Surely, an American would be treated differently? An American abroad would no doubt be welcomed with open arms into the soft, sympathetic bosom of his nation�...
Ever since they grew popular in the 1400s, embassies have been more about international power play than relations with local people or their own nationals. But only in the last half-century did they begin to participate fully in the bureaucratic inanity of modern government. Perhaps more than any other...
“Your perspective can narrow because both of you work in the same institution and maybe spend too much time thinking about it,” says Homi. “Then the two-minute rule goes into operation.”
But the fix may be less than meets the eye. Some outside observers say immunity is based not on current legal arrangements, but on the unwillingness of the U.S. to prosecute the contractors. Human Rights First argues that the initial rule that provided immunity to the contractors expired when the...