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With this in mind, it is also important to recognize that seniority clauses have served to protect teachers who have challenged administrators and pedagogical norms with radical and unorthodox teaching methods. Teachers should be protected from arbitrary or politically motivated job loss and, for those reasons, seniority rules are beneficial. That said, we believe that teachers unions are exercising unduly power by insisting that seniority weigh so heavily in assessing who is to be kept and who cast out. Other factors like quality of instruction and student and parent input should be considered in addition to experience as a means...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Lay Off Layoffs | 2/24/2010 | See Source »

...calling for cuts. One of the rare lawmakers willing to criticize Obama's decision not to freeze military spending is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. "I don't think that we have to protect military contractors," she said after Obama made national-security spending off-limits. "I do not think the entire defense budget should be exempted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Lean Times, Military Spending Still Gets a Pass | 2/24/2010 | See Source »

...collective-bargaining ethos). Instead, Ford agreed that workers would receive a share of the company's 2009 profits. The payments average $250 per employee for each of Ford's 41,000 workers. A year ago, the union might have been willing to discuss dropping the profit-sharing to protect jobs, but this time it stuck to the letter of the contract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UAW Anger at Contract Concessions on the Rise | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

...more fundamental sense, however, the Fort Hood report, which was released on Jan. 13, is a baffling exercise. Its very name - Protecting the Force: Lessons from Fort Hood - signals its odd premise. Rather than seeking ways to identify and root out potentially homicidal military personnel, the study's aim is, in its own words, to determine "how best to defend against threats posed by external influences operating on members of our military community." That seems, at best, a misplaced priority. One of the people Hasan murdered and several he wounded were not members of the military at all, but civilians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stopping Soldiers from Becoming Murderers | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...grieve more for the two children she lost in the quake when their house collapsed. To comfort her surviving child, 6-year-old Jean, Chantal wrenched what she could from the wreckage, including her white lace curtains, and hung them in the shack. "But I still can't protect him from the rain," says Chantal, 45. "We were supposed to receive real tents by now. Where are they?" (See TIME's complete coverage of the Haiti earthquake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti PM: We Can Rise Out of Our Postquake Squalor | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

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