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...there is any greater pleasure than watching your child vanish into a book, it is following her there to see what she sees. This is how it comes to pass in my household that my almost 14-year-old daughter and I are AWOL for long stretches these days. Her obsession with Stephenie Meyer's Twilight novels made me curious. She's a constant reader of novels, from Harry Potter to The Secret Life of Bees, but not typically a fangirl: never got into Gossip Girl, never bought boy-band T shirts or posters. But now, as the release...
...space of 2:04.Harvard responded almost immediately with its most complete drive of the game, moving 67 yards in five plays and capping it off with a 2-yard touchdown strike from senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti to junior tight end Nikolai Schwartzkopf, Pizzotti’s second touchdown pass of an otherwise statistically down game (16-for-23, 156 yards). The highlight of the drive was a 42-yard strike from Pizzotti to junior wideout Matt Luft, the second-longest play of the day for the Crimson.Penn countered once again, moving 79 yards and reaching the Harvard 6-yard line...
...penalties, we had some that we can’t afford...We have to do a better job with that.” Harvard’s best chance to boost its lead came during a power play early in the third period. Junior Doug Rogers launched a quick pass to senior Nick Coskren, who then cycled the puck to sophomore Michael Biega. Biega let off a shot that slid past Petizian, but the puck ricocheted off the post, forcing the Crimson to continue guarding a one-goal lead. The Crimson will look for its third straight victory against Brown...
...Jersey became the first state to pass tenure legislation when, in 1910, it granted fair-dismissal rights to college professors. During the suffrage movement of the 1920s - when female teachers could be fired for getting married or getting pregnant or (gasp) wearing pants - such rights were extended to elementary and high school teachers as well. But where the tenure track for college professors can require a record of published research and probationary periods of up to 10 years, K-12 teachers can win tenure after working as little as two years in some states. And thanks to the rigid testing...
...union contracts and state-labor laws in firing a tenured teacher. (Costs can run as high as $100,000). Other districts simply transfer inadequate teachers to other schools in what Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has called "the dance of the lemons." Former Mass. Gov. William Weld tried to pass legislation requiring teachers to take competency tests every five years, a move that triggered a number of complaints from local teachers' unions who called the bill adversarial and intrusive. Weld defended himself by explaining his stance as "anti-slob teacher," not "anti-teacher...