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...move, which in lieu of the traditional system of letter grades will allow four levels of assessment—honors pass, pass, low pass, and fail—is intended, according to Kagan's e-mail, to "promote pedagogical excellence and innovation and further strengthen the intellectual community...
...writing to let you know that the faculty decided yesterday to move to a grading system with fewer classifications than we have now. The new classifications, much as at Yale and Stanford, will be Honors-Pass-Low Pass-Fail. The faculty believes that this decision will promote pedagogical excellence and innovation and further strengthen the intellectual community in which we all live. The new system will apply to students entering HLS in fall 2009; yet to be determined is whether it also will apply to some or all classes of current students...
...thoroughly examines how standardized tests, aided by an inability to teach beyond them, dampen the intellectual curiosity of American children and thus reinforce the global achievement gap, he only gets at a piece of the problem. By downplaying America’s first achievement gap—that between low-income minority students and their middle-class counterparts—Wagner’s argument belies a true representation of the academic challenges facing our country and obscures the actions we should be taking. While it is difficult to disagree with his claim that teaching to standardized tests leaves students...
...notes that the Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled that subsequent state laws allowing abortions under other circumstances should not be assumed to overturn the ban. The booklet also notes the Michigan Supreme court has rejected the argument that the state's Equal Protection clause requires public funding for low-income women seeking medical abortions. It concludes that "Michigan's legislature has been and continues to be extremely anti-choice, making the state highly vulnerable to enactment of a new ban." The state entry is consequently written in red to indicate "high risk...
...McCain's advisers, like former Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady, have helped him identify a tax proposal that speaks to the underlying cause of the meltdown. Compared with most other developed countries, the U.S. has relatively high taxes on corporations that produce goods and services and relatively low taxes on consumption. "For example," McCain observed, "Ireland now has an 11% business tax. The United States of America has a 35% business tax. Where are businesses going...