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Score This! Does Klein recall the final exam of his high school senior English course [Feb. 8]? If he believes standardized testing is such an effective indicator of teaching success, did he succeed in his chosen profession because of that exam or despite it? Is that what he remembers most clearly about the greatest teachers he had? Or was it something else? Mark Cebulski, MILWAUKEE...
...Score This! Does Klein recall the final exam of his high school senior English course [Feb. 8]? If he believes standardized testing is such an effective indicator of teaching success, did he succeed in his chosen profession because of that exam or despite it? Is that what he remembers most clearly about the greatest teachers he had? Or was it something else? Mark Cebulski Milwaukee...
...such an outsized impact. The ultimate fear is that Greece will default, dragging down the euro with it. "A lot of the euro's problems today are rooted in those members having failed to integrate enough," says Bob Hancké, a professor of European political economy at the London School of Economics. "I'm one of those people who can imagine there being no euro - or at least not one similar to what we know today - within three years." That may be an extreme view, but the severity of the problems is forcing a significant change...
Elizabeth Fedorchalk was tired of being fat. She had been trying to lose weight since elementary school, but diets never made a difference. She wasn't husky. She wasn't big-boned. By age 16, the 5-ft. 5-in., 291-lb. high school junior from Holts Summit, Mo., was undeniably obese. And each year, it was only getting worse...
Fedorchalk's diet was abysmal. She skipped breakfast, ate lunch at school - usually chicken strips and fries - and frequently had dinner at McDonald's: a burger and more fries. She drank nondiet soda and snacked on potato chips and Little Debbie cakes. She never exercised because, between school and extracurricular activities, she claimed she didn't have time. "It got to where I didn't like sports anymore," Fedorchalk says. "I'd get out of breath and get upset because mentally I wanted to do so much, but physically I couldn't." She gained 45 lb. in 2009 alone...