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...three years, teachers and politicians have wailed about No Child, which requires rigid reform and testing regimens in exchange for federal money for low-income students. Critics say the policy is underfunded, overbearing and unfair. Now they are taking action. And the law may not survive intact, despite the Administration's vow to fight...
Online CUE evaluations promise significant logistical improvements to the system. An electronic system will save trees and tabulation time. The new system will also be far more flexible and open to reform. Already, this flexibility is being exploited to rework the format of the evaluations, allowing students to rate classes overall first before they evaluate secondary areas like difficulty and homework. We hope that increased flexibility will also lead to at least one other format change. Currently, the scale used to judge professors and Teaching Fellows ranges from 1-5, a far too limited span considering that students rarely give...
...have always had a complicated relationship. I attended a progressive Jewish day school, where I had an early insight into religion’s hypocrisies—but was indoctrinated with Reform Judaism just the same. I hated the sycophants who revered the rabbis and cantors for all the wrong reasons. I hated the way my teachers wore their observance like a badge of pride—yet so frequently exhibited pettiness. And as I studied Jewish history, I hated the persecution foisted on my ancestors by so many other groups that claimed their authority from...
According to Lesser, the group has high hopes for the proposal, but according to the draft of the report, “We harbor no illusions that redistricting reform will be an easy task...
...really a collection of papers Schliefer wrote between 1993 and 2005, with an introduction and a conclusion thrown on the ends. And it feels like a collection of papers, not a unified whole. A chapter on the unofficial economy in 1997 is followed by a chapter on legal reform in 1996, which is followed by a chapter comparing federalism in China and Russia in 2001. Each chapter does well on its own, but Shleifer does not convince the reader that one has to slog through all of them to fully appreciate his overarching conclusion...