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...fact, you may have heard a lot of things lately—about the economy, about healthcare, about war spending, about aerial wolf hunting—but you may not have heard about something else: the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA...
...sheer military and economic might. For years our national self-image has been thriving on the dividends of our psychological investment in Wall Street, but we must diversify our portfolio. Especially now, when Americans have to work harder than ever to be proud of our country, we need the NEA...
...transformative education plan should incorporate higher teacher accountability measures, which will have to sit well with the National Education Association (NEA), which unites powerful teachers’ unions and exerts a tremendous amount of control over votes, campaign funds, and school boards...
...bargain must be struck, swapping an increase in general teacher salaries for stricter standards on how well teachers must perform to keep their post. The NEA is violently opposed to any threats to traditional job security, but like any other lobby can be paid off. Democrats should propose extra pay for teachers in underserved areas. Higher wages overall will help ensure a bargain and improve the prestige of the profession. Teacher’s should receive more benefits, but not without more responsibilities...
...Wolf Prize in Physics in 1980. Wilson is currently at the physics department of Ohio State University.In recent years, Wilson has devoted himself to education reform. He co-directs Learning by Redesign, an organization that explores of novel ideas in elementary and secondary education.In a September 1998 interview with NEA Today, the magazine of the National Education Association, Wilson explained his interest in K-12 education.“If your aim is to have an impact on science literacy... you need to rivet your attention on the 46 million students in our public schools, not on graduate students...