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...legal system. Yet officials are also aware that any expansion of individual rights-a change for which activists and legal experts have clamored-will come at the expense of the Party's hegemony. Some progress is being made: lawyers have recently won credible victories on cases involving environmental protection, labor rights and antidiscrimination. The government has also attempted to professionalize the legal system by bringing in overseas lawyers and judges to help train their Chinese counterparts. But even those incremental gains are met with deep suspicion, resulting in what Bequelin calls the "fundamental inner contradiction" of the law's role...
...Nebraska model has been praised by the National Council of Measurement in Education, the National Center for Fair and Open Testing and education testing researchers at Duquesne University. Sen. Edward Kennedy met with state officials earlier this month as part of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee's deliberations on revisions to NCLB and was impressed by the results they've achieved, his staff says. And now that the state has added on-site peer reviews to the annual evaluation process, Christensen says the ultimate deciders at the federal Department of Education have assured him that STARS passes...
...applicants of similar age, gender, education, personal presentation, and work experience were called back. “People are using CORIs as a proxy for their own racist hiring practices,” says Jamila R. Martin ’07, a member of Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), which is advocating for CORI reform. CORIs contribute to a cycle of unemployment and crime which pervades our cities. A convicted felon who wants to reform and become a productive member of society will have a hard time proving this to a potential employer or college...
...coming years. Scientists and engineers who are citizens of other nations, especially countries such as China, India, and Japan, are attaining better education and training, filling many of the top jobs in their fields, and thus attracting more resources to their countries. If America does not have enough skilled labor to compete, we will continue to lose valuable workers and assets necessary for high quality scientific research and general innovation. Yet America’s current system focuses overwhelmingly on giving green cards to family members of current green card holders and citizens, with family members accounting for 87 percent...
There is no shortage of ideas for improving No Child Left Behind. Senator Edward Kennedy, who chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and Congressman George Miller, Kennedy's counterpart in the House, are sorting through a mind-numbing number of proposals to address AYP's shortcomings, lackluster state standards, curriculum narrowing and remedies for failing schools as well as issues concerning the law's requirement for a "qualified teacher" in every classroom and other concerns...