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...student test scores a fair way to judge a teacher's effectiveness - and to decide their pay? That's the controversial question at the heart of Florida Governor Jeb Bush's ambitious education reform package that the state legislature will be debating over the next several weeks...
...Republican challenge is to figure out, how big do the reforms have to be for people to decide that we get it? Because the big problem we have right now is, since the implementation isn't working, people attack the policy. So even if the policy is right, if it's not being implemented right, it feels wrong. I think the White House and the House and Senate Republicans have to understand, if they're not for very bold, dramatic reform, the country is sooner or later going to fire them...
...What kind of reform is needed...
...Here's the core thing for you to think about: The Republican challenge is to get back on offense as the reform party...
...these days when a person like Chloe Lee, a 32-year-old boutique owner in downtown Taipei, can seem like a forgotten soul amid the bitterness that now defines politics in Taiwan. In the 1990s, she worked for the then opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), when it stood for reform and change, she says, not just for Taiwan's autonomy from China. But nowadays, she says, the ruling DPP?and, for that matter, its leader Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian?seems like a one-trick pony, and a tired pony at that. "We spend too much time on Chen...