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...national guard troops on public buses in the capital to keep them from being hijacked.) Many Venezuelans have responded by entrusting themselves to a group of dead "saints" who had lived delinquent lives. Ismaelito and other santos malandros such as Petroleo Crudo (Crude Oil), El Raton (The Mouse), La Malandra Isabelita, Machera and countless others were petty criminals in the 1960s and '70s. Most, if not all, are said to have died brutally at the hands of the police. But, like sinful ghosts trying to escape purgatory if not hell, they are all believed to have gained some form...
According to a paper by Miller and University of Texas administrator Geri Malandra posted on the commission’s website, accountability is a pressing issue because college academic standards are becoming “diluted...
...Harvard in 1950, for example, about 15 percent of students got a B+ or better: today the average is 70 percent,” Miller and Malandra wrote...
...said. President George W. Bush, who has supported rigorous and more frequent standardized testing in public schools during his tenure, created the Commission this year to devise a comprehensive national strategy for higher education. Executive Associate for Accountability and Performance in the University of Texas System Geri H. Malandra said in her remarks at the Nashville conference that accountability metrics are essential to maintaining the quality of higher education and ensuring that it is worth the tuition dollars. Malandra has helped to enact accountability reforms within the University of Texas System, by monitoring data like graduation rates, licensure exam pass...
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