Word: opinionizing
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...Szeto said. “If China doesn’t improve, doesn’t adopt democracy, Hong Kong will not improve, will not have democracy.” “I think that the disruption showed there’s such a difference of political opinion within the Chinese community,” audience member Jeffrey Kwong ’09, added after the event. But a divergent opinion did not justify Wei’s tactics, according to Kwong. “I think at a place like college, you should have a level of respectful...
...perplexing to many students. “It seems like a slap in the face, it’s like naming a dixie cup after him,” said Ryan P. Halprin ’12. Others said that they thought the decision reflected NASA’s opinion of Colbert’s appearance. “He is dashingly handsome—he doesn’t need a treadmill,” said Jennifer Lim ’12. The COLBERT Treadmill is expected to be launched to the ISS in August and the Tranquility node...
...Teachers can't believe it. We Are worried about the future. Alan Bersin is a dictator who never took the opinion of the classroom teacher." - Barbara Scott, elementary school teacher, upon the announcement that Bersin would be state education secretary, (San Diego Union-Tribune, April...
...best standards are those that are clear and very specific. For fourth-grade reading, an example would be demonstrating the ability to distinguish between cause and effect and between fact and opinion in a selected text. For fourth-grade math, examples would include demonstrating the ability to calculate perimeters and volumes, multiply whole numbers, represent data on a graph, estimate computations and relate fractions to decimals. Specific common standards would allow textbook and curriculum developers to spend their research dollars achieving clear goals rather than producing various versions for different states. Just because the standards are national does not mean...
...Abdul-Basser wrote in a later e-mailed statement that he “never expressed the position that individuals who leave Islam or convert from Islam to another religion must be killed. I do not hold this opinion personally.” He explained that he was not advocating for the positions mentioned in his e-mail, but rather “addressing them in the context of the evolution of an Islamic legal doctrine...