Word: meritable
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Despite Ted and Caroline's endorsement of Obama, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Kerry Kennedy chose to endorse Clinton. Don't their endorsements merit the same attention as Ted and Caroline's? Your pro-Obama bias is unmistakable. Kate Erskine, Austin, Texas...
...musicians that are looking for a topeducation as well as the broad liberal arts experience, it’s fairly well known,” he adds.Rezzo is not only getting a master’s degree; he’s getting monetary aid. Unlike Harvard, the NEC offers merit-based scholarships. “NEC’s been really generous as far as helping me out with what is otherwise a large tuition,” he says. HARVARDWOOD HELPSThough such opportunities are not available for ever artform, those students interested in the entertainment arts have taken matters...
...Like Rock Music?” can be seen as an allegory for the rock renaissance that many American music lovers still eagerly await. There is clearly still hope for a revitalization of the genre, but only if albums like this one start to garner the attention they merit. —Reviewer Jeff W. Feldman can be reached at jfeldman@fas.harvard.edu...
...culture of passivity empowered by infotainment and a bottom-line corporate mentality. In this new culture, Jacoby says, scope is sacrificed for sales and science is increasingly drowned amidst the white noise of politicized junk-thought. Even the habit of reading appears increasingly obsolete. The strictly secular, intellectual merit of Jefferson, Paine, and Emerson that founded the country has given way to the lionization of celebrities and the perpetuation of anti-intellectual ideals (namely creationism and gender stereotyping) that most other modernized nations have long left behind. Only a stunting of American culture, Jacoby contends, could possibly account...
...good goal for an entire nation in need of better-quality teaching. As U.S. school districts embark on hundreds of separate experiments involving merit pay, some lessons seem clear. If the country wants to pay teachers like professionals-according to their performance, rather than like factory workers logging time on the job-it has to provide them with other professional opportunities, like the chance to grow in the job, learn from the best of their peers, show leadership and have a voice in decision-making, including how their work is judged. Making such changes would require a serious investment...