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...professor of education at UTEP: "Now I can see what actually works in the classroom with real students and teachers." Henry Levin, a professor of economics and education at Columbia University's Teachers College, says that "universities like to cop the attitude that they can make public schools better overnight." But after working hands-on in those schools, "they become a lot less brash rather quickly...
...tired to hear me keep saying this, but you have to crawl, before you can walk," Mazzoleni said. "You don't change a program overnight, or even in one year...
...favor of getting it over rather than getting it correct. This has meant that Lieberman, considered a happy St. Bernard in 12 years in the Senate--"as moral, decent and honorable a man as I've known there," said Senator John McCain last Friday--has seen his image morph overnight into a Rottweiler. Conventional wisdom holds that a position can't be principle if it is also self-serving. As Lieberman waited to go on Larry King Live recently, I asked him how it feels to go from media favorite to just another pol. With his "What, me worry?" smile...
...that sense, their very presence is an acknowledgment of the failure of the Oslo peace process and its mechanisms. Although Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat met U.S. envoy Dennis Ross in Morocco overnight, the idea that Israelis and Palestinians will rush to conclude a deal before President Clinton leaves office on January 20, and before Israel goes to the polls the following month, may be little more than wishful thinking...
...long arm of President Vladimir Putin on Monday reached all the way to the Spanish seaside resort of Sotogrande, where Russian media magnate Vladimir Gusinsky was detained overnight by Spanish police executing an international arrest warrant. Gusinsky, whose independent Media-Most empire has long been regarded as a thorn in the Kremlin's side, is wanted in Moscow on charges of embezzlement, but has been living primarily in exile since his release after spending three days in prison in June...