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...parliament's subcommittee on human rights, has also pledged to force the E.U. member states to close the loopholes. "E.U. governments simply failed to take the rules seriously enough," she says. "It is shameful - the E.U. can talk but not deliver. It cannot portray itself as a human-rights model to anyone until it can put its house in order...
Although Delgado will graduate in two short months, she will leave behind a solid model of success for aspiring Radcliffe athletes...
...connect that information to other aspects of Google," says Dr. Roni Zeiger, product manager for Google Health. Unlike Google's main search page or e-mail accounts, Google Health has no ads. Its business model is simple: the more people use Google Health, the more they're likely to punch in health-related queries, which routes them to a regular Google search-results page. That, in turn, drives revenue to the site...
...they need to compete in an increasingly global workforce. Obama would define school success by how much improvement students make from grade to grade, no matter where they started, as opposed to the current system, in which schools are judged on students' absolute performance, not their progress. Obama's model is similar to the one we pioneered three years ago here in New York City, where we give schools an A-to-F grade based on how well they're helping their students acquire skills. The grades help focus schools on a clear set of expectations...
...establishment of ethnic studies as a secondary field introduces a new way of thinking. It serves as a counterweight to the kind of academic chauvinism that puts forth the risky proposition that some degrees are more important than others. An avid student of the Eurocentric, so-called classical model of Western education would be wildly ill-equipped to understand the broad, socio-cultural forces that shape current events in the national and international spheres. Purposely ignoring the experiences of non-Western peoples would be like looking at the world with one eye closed—with a massive blind spot...