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...Martha L. Minow has also been raised as a possible candidate, according to Bloomberg. But Tushnet said he thinks it is “unlikely” that Minow would be chosen because Kagan has had “some bathing in high-level practice” that would make her a more likely contender...
...however, cannot be accomplished by money alone. Successfully combating the injustice of malaria requires cooperation across the lines that divide society—lines like religion, ethnicity, socio-economic status, and gender. In countries across Africa, groups are recognizing this need to work with one another in order to make real progress on eradicating the disease. In Mozambique, Together Against Malaria brings Christian and Muslim leaders together to utilize religious infrastructure to improve access to malaria prevention measures. In Nigeria the same is being done by the Nigerian Inter-faith Action Association, which will help distribute 60 million bed nets...
...have not met a child who does not admire this trend. But it makes adults profoundly uncomfortable. Teachers complain that we are rewarding kids for doing what they should be doing of their own volition. Psychologists warn that money can actually make kids perform worse by cheapening the act of learning. Parents predict widespread slacking after the incentives go away. And at least one think-tank scholar has denounced the strategy as racist. The debate has become a proxy battle for the larger war over why our kids are not learning at the rate they should be despite decades...
...Washington, middle schoolers would be paid for a portfolio of five different metrics, including attendance and good behavior. If they hit perfect marks in every category, they could make $100 every two weeks. Schools in Dallas got the simplest scheme and the one targeting the youngest children: every time second-graders read a book and successfully completed a computerized quiz about it, they earned $2. Straightforward - and cheap. The average earning would turn out to be about $14 (for seven books read) per year...
...combination of reforms and that the interaction among those reforms will matter more than any single change in isolation. And whatever we do, he says, we have to test it first - and fearlessly. "One thing we cannot do is, we cannot restrict ourselves to a set of solutions that make adults comfortable...