Word: listens
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Most important, federal policymakers need to listen hard to the people who are working in the nation's schools every day. It's the only way to ensure that policies that sound great in Washington aren't leaving educational reality behind. [This article contains a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] Early Report Card. The law demands that schools get better, but progress may be in the eye of the beholder...
...even more ambitious idea, which drew on her voodoo roots in the old African slave port of Cotonou, Benin, where she grew up: music is "the ultimate power," she explains over lunch in Paris, her adopted home in the 1980s and 1990s before she moved to New York City. "Listening to music, the color of a person disappears, language disappears. Even enemies listen to the same music...
...conviction that it's good to talk, and that music is the universal tongue. "Music has been a communication tool since humankind has existed," she says. "Music is a healer, a unifier. It breaks all the barriers between different nations. It relieves despair. It dampens war. Because when you listen to music, your brain is following your soul. I'm not scared by any genre, any musical background that is different from mine, because I know it's the same language...
...campaign could change Harvard for the better. Black students must be frank in sharing their experiences with discrimination at Harvard, and the rest of us must take the time to listen carefully. But if the "I Am Harvard" campaign is to be as inclusive as it needs to be to succeed, then the comments made last week by Dr. S. Allen Counter, the Director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, will prove profoundly damaging...
...seriously out of whack, and that something needs to give on the currency front sooner rather than later. He will no doubt try his best to persuade China that it is in its own interest to move faster - much faster - on the currency front this week. Whether China will listen is another matter...