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...failed public-school system. The vast majority of public-school teachers (as represented by their union) are willing to accept below-proficiency pay in return for job security because they are painfully aware of their collective ineptitude. When tenure is eliminated and teachers can make up to $130,000 per year for extraordinary performance, educators like me may be encouraged to (re)join public service. Until that time, those of us who have "unreasonably" high expectations will remain in the private sector. Kevin R. Glover, BETHLEHEM...
...Valcent's El Paso lab, potted crops grow in rows on clear vertical panels that rotate on a conveyor belt. Moving them gives the plants the precise amount of light and nutrients needed, an optimization that Kertz says lets him grow 15 times as much lettuce per acre as on a normal farm, using 5% of the water that conventional agriculture does. The company aims to finish a commercial-scale facility by early...
...representatives from the Registrar’s office argued that the costs of administering exams—$300,000 per exam period—reduces the feasibility of moving the Jan. 20 exams...
...most intense gossip centered not on the future of Barack Obama’s administration, but on his family—what school would his two daughters, Sasha and Malia, attend? This time, the prompt answer was a disappointment: The Obama daughters will attend the $29,442-per-year Sidwell Friends School, alma mater of presidential progeny from Archie Roosevelt to Chelsea Clinton...
...well as for voters nostalgic for the glory days of Apollo. But Bush, NASA and Congress did mean business, and eventually came up with a plan under which the space station would be completed and the shuttle would be retired by 2010. That would free up about $4 billion per year, which would be used to pay for a new generation of expendable boosters as well as a 21st century version of the Apollo orbiter and lunar lander for those rockets to carry. (Read about the space moon race here...