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...communities.Still, Biber recognizes the importance of all career fields to the common goal of improving the country’s public school system and, in turn, the country as a whole. “We believe that in order to really fix social justice, we need leaders in education reform but we also need people in law and in policy and in business and in medicine who have done something like this first. They really understand what the problems look like in the schools and they understand what the solutions look like.” WHERE LIES THE MOST GAIN...
...feedback. Administrators in charge of the Q did not respond to requests for comment.While these changes are improvements, however small, the present reinvention of the course evaluation system is a missed opportunity to make more meaningful alterations to the culture of feedback and pedagogical improvement at Harvard. Specifically, the reforms fail to address incomplete participation by both students and faculty, which remain the CUE’s Achilles heel. Evaluations mean little when they do not include a full sample of students enrolled in a course. For course-shoppers, this often creates a skewed perception of a class?...
...return to those issues where they can expect to win, or at least be taken seriously. The last six weeks notwithstanding, UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 and Vice President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 have scored some important victories, most notably calendar reform, which was the result of diplomatic persistence...
...Pact, which imposed rigid discipline--overly rigid, critics say--on governments to curb deficits. Europeans are concerned about the impact of the falling dollar on their exports, but they have yet to take action to stem the tide. "Be patient with Europe," pleaded Blanque. After all, he said, economic-reform efforts in France, Germany and elsewhere are under way, but they will take time to yield tangible results...
...Sarkozy has pledged that isn't going to happen - but convened eleventh-hour meetings with unions Tuesday night. Despite the gesture, unlike previous reformers, Sarkozy's got a key ally in public opinion this time. A Libération poll published Tuesday found 59% of respondents backed his offensive on the "special regimes," with 52% approving the planned public sector job cuts. Analysts like Reynié also note the platform of sweeping reform Sarkozy was elected on in May is still fresh and expected in peoples' minds. But is that support enough? The same Libération poll showed large...