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...illegals can move freely. He's "like a bird," one of the guest workers told me quite earnestly. "He can move anywhere he wants." Others were also jealous, ironically, of an illegal's ability to set down roots in the U.S. The Senate plan provides the outlines of a path to citizenship for guest workers, but it first requires most of them to navigate a challenging schedule: two years in the U.S., followed by one year back home, then two more years in the U.S., one back home and so on. After eight years, they would get to stand...
...knows what to do about the 2,000 U.S. schools that have failed to make AYP five years in a row. "Research shows that the path most often chosen is 'other,'" which often means minor tinkering, says Kati Haycock, director of the nonprofit Education Trust. But school districts say the more radical federal options aren't always feasible or affordable. Nor is it clear that turning a school over to the state or making it a charter will raise its performance. "None of these remedies have any basis in reality or research," says Diane Ravitch, research professor of education...
When Peter Shapiro owned the wetlands, a New York City concert hall where Dave Matthews and Pearl Jam played in the 1990s, there was one sure path to a sellout: team up with Ticketmaster. Fans would line up outside record stores for tickets processed by Ticketmaster or call one of Ticketmaster's phone banks to score seats. No other distributor had the worldwide labyrinth of retail partnerships and phone outlets to move millions of tickets in minutes. And they charged for it--as much as $15 on a $50 ticket. But the music industry, if you hadn't noticed...
...sciences and encourages its researchers to bring discoveries out of the University’s labs and into the marketplace. In interviews, more than a dozen Harvard faculty members have said that the school’s unusually stringent conflict-of-interest rules have placed a hurdle on the path to innovation...
Have Harvard’s strict conflict-of-interest rules created an obstacle on this path? Kohlberg says no. “If you look at our policies, they are not very different than conflict-of-interest policies at other leading research universities,” says Kohlberg. “I really didn’t see any effect or any negative impact...