Word: punishments
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...just as well be spent on things like smaller classes, individual tutoring and improved teacher training without also flunking massive numbers. "Retaining students," Chicago education researcher Suzanne Davenport says, "is a blame-the-victim solution." But it will last as long as politicians continue to believe they need to punish kids like Lashawnda Walker in order to save them...
...addition to positive gun control efforts, Congress is considering troublesome Republican measures that would punish juvenile criminals more severely for their crimes. These bills, if passed, would make it easier to try juveniles as adults and impose longer sentences for juveniles in adult prisons--most notably a mandatory sentencing of 20 years for bringing a gun to school...
Both Republicans and Democrats should resist the urge to punish rather than prevent. Republicans must demand, as they did on last week, that their leadership present them with stricter gun control legislation and make stronger efforts to get out from under the nefarious influence of the NRA. Democrats must work actively to pass legislation improving guidance and mental health counseling for juveniles. Littleton's lesson is not one of retribution--it should be one of prevention and education...
...good move for Liu, and for Hong Kongnewspaper readers. [It is] odd that Nieman wouldwant to punish him for it," Seymour wrote...
...atrocity even more insidious than annihilation of a people. Turkey's denials of the Armenian Genocide began 80 years ago and continue to this day. Its strategic geographical location allowed it to avoid compliance with the points of the Treaty of Sevres (1920), which was intended to punish Turkey has attempted to annihilate both a people and a memory. Turkey for humanitarian crimes and to secure the freedom and independence of Armenia. Today, the Republic of Armenia is less than one-tenth the size of historical Armenia, and Armenian churches and homes built on the Anatolian plateau have been destroyed...