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...suspicion that the placement of those 103 children with French families were permanent transactions? First off, all of the 103 families paid between $2,800 and $8,400 as part of the process of volunteering - that is, money to the NGO above whatever amount caring for the children will cost. Meanwhile, Chadian authorities say the Darfur children - taken from refugee centers administered by the NGO - showed no signs of hunger or illness that would make their departure urgent. Finally, with neither the nationality nor even exact identity of most children fully established, officials in Chad and France wonder...
...program’s leadership, increasing funding, forcing indifferent professors to pay attention to the program, and reducing class sizes, the University should reevaluate Expository Writing altogether. Specifically, we hope that Expository Writing will be radically downsized and required only for those who fail to demonstrate competency on a placement test.Part of the recent gush in the program’s wounds is due to the lack of attention given to the teaching of writing by faculty and administrators alike. This is largely a symptom of the fact that the program is extra-departmental and thus outside the main corridors...
...tough the course is playing—we should have at least had a couple of guys up there who broke 80 when 10 people in the field were up there [with a score less than 80].” Difficult hole locations, best embodied by the pin placement on the green of the par-five sixth hole, contributed to higher scores. The hole, positioned on a steep down slope on the green, prevented anyone putting from above the hole to stop the ball close to the cup. “Some of these hole positions were borderline unfair...
...someone offered you $1,000 for getting a five on an Advanced Placement (AP) Exam, would you take it? We certainly would. And if you attend one of 25 low-performing high schools in New York City, now you can. This particular incentive is part of a larger program being implemented in New York City this year under the auspices of Roland Fryer, assistant professor of economics at Harvard. The idea behind the program is to “pay for performance” by monetarily rewarding students who do well on standardized tests. Despite concerns that the program undermines...
...agencies in the nation; the latter is a region where most kids wish they lived as well as Brussels Griffon terriers do in this country. So yes, it concerns me when I realize that we handle the adoption of animals with more care and love than we manage the placement of abused children in foster homes; or that people like Leona Helmsley leave millions to pets in their wills; or that a custody battle over a dog elicits more cathartic emotion than the scores of children who have been dying of malnutrition recently in Panama...