Word: laddered
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...academic year 2006, 13 percent of social science ladder faculty, 16 percent of natural science faculty, and 10 percent of humanities faculty within Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences were minorities, according to a June report from the Office of the Provost. The report defined Asian/Pacific Islander, Black, non-Hispanic, Hispanic and American Indian/Alaskan Native as minorities...
...standardized tests. As the federal NCLB law comes up for reauthorization next year, testing critics are quick to point to the extensive delays. "Nowhere have schools stopped functioning because of the missing test scores. But they also don't know if they've moved up or down the performance ladder," said education advocate Julie Woestehoff, executive director of the Chicago-based non-profit Parents United for Responsible Education. She hopes snafus like Illinois' may actually help in rethinking the law's parameters to include other forms of assessments in evaluating schools. "These testing errors show the need for multiple measures...
...curiously lopsided" way in which India's economy has boomed. Why does a country that is home to advanced high-tech and manufacturing companies still have about 400 million illiterate people and high unemployment? In so many aspects of its economy, Luce notes, "India finds itself higher on the ladder than one would expect it to be," yet "most of its population are still standing at the bottom." Many articles and books on India end here, but Luce explains the reasons for India's interminable paradoxes, arguing they are the logical outcomes of illogical polices...
Additionally, the quality of Harvard’s instruction can also be drastically improved by expanding the hiring of full-time, non-tenure track teachers. Harvard has needless and counterproductive restrictions on how long one can teach at Harvard if one is not on the ladder to become a tenured professor. These archaic policies should be rescinded so that Harvard can attract the best teachers in addition to the best researchers...
...smaller than a typical U.S. or European supermarket - no bigger in most cases than a large convenience store, although Reliance promises that much bigger supermarkets are in the pipeline. All will be clean, air-conditioned and have stock neatly displayed on wide shelves that you don't need a ladder to reach. The convenience of shopping in just one place is sure to lure a lot of customers and small shop owners worry that the supermarkets will force them out of business. I can see they have reason to worry - I'll certainly opt for the supermarkets - but I hope...