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...many teachers believe the tests are unreliable indicators of student performance. "Our disappointment is clear," says Kay Brilliant, director of education policy and practice for the National Educators Association, the nation's largest teachers' union. "If it's going to be more of the same, more NCLB [No Child Left Behind], more testing and minimal support, then we're not interested." Duncan admits he is tackling the Everest of entrenched interests with this particular reform. "It's pretty controversial," he says of the rule. "But to say that great teaching doesn't matter and should be disconnected from student outcomes...
...says Ravitch, who is critical of the accountability movement's emphasis on standardized testing. "My biggest problem with Duncan and Obama on education is that they are giving Bush a third term in education." Duncan counters that he is merely breaking down walls--borrowing a little bit from the left, a little bit from the right. "I just want to do what works," says Duncan, who is planning a multicity listening tour with Newt Gingrich and Al Sharpton. "There are great ideas everywhere along the political spectrum, and there are terrible ideas. But that's never how I've viewed...
...today's America, an intellectual flatlining confirmed by Barack Obama's victory. Tanenhaus traces conservatism's history with respect and likens its crisis to the funk that bedeviled liberalism after the failures of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs (though he glosses over modern-day extremism on the left). His essay is ultimately an elegy: with the atrophy of conservative thought, the loss of genuine ideological debate leaves all of us poorer...
...love the Saturday Night Live sketches. In fact, I was extremely disappointed when Will left. We've never had any contestants as ornery as the Sean Connery character that Darrell Hammond portrays. I've been asked how I would feel if we had Sean Connery on Celebrity Jeopardy! I tell everyone I'd just walk up to him and punch out his lights...
...Angeles National Forest burned more than 100,000 acres (40,500 hectares), threatened thousands of homes and killed two firefighters in the dry heat of late summer. The stillness kept the flames from spreading quickly--a climatologist called it the "Jabba the Hutt fire," big and slow--but left the smoke to choke Los Angeles. By Sept. 2 firefighters had begun to bring the blaze under control, aided by cooler and more humid air, but they know the year is likely to bring plenty more conflagrations...