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...Nebraska model has been praised by the National Council of Measurement in Education, the National Center for Fair and Open Testing and education testing researchers at Duquesne University. Sen. Edward Kennedy met with state officials earlier this month as part of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee's deliberations on revisions to NCLB and was impressed by the results they've achieved, his staff says. And now that the state has added on-site peer reviews to the annual evaluation process, Christensen says the ultimate deciders at the federal Department of Education have assured him that STARS passes...
...easily. If anything - as many reporters' bruised egos and eardrums will attest - the tempers of his campaign team flare more frequently than the Senator's passions do, though they receive less attention. Last week brought the latest media stir over a salty McCain riposte, this one to Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn; it included both a "barnyard epithet" (as it came to be known in the Nixon White House transcripts) and a verb last in political news when uttered by Dick Cheney. (Notably, the harshest reaction reporters received from Romney when they pressed him about those laboring Guatemalans was "Geez...
...Already, Cambodia suffers from rampant corruption, and there has been little transparency in the awarding of exploration contracts to foreign oil companies. Longtime Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has dismissed concerns that oil will be anything other than a huge boon for his country. But for the poor farmers watching the oxen decline to feast at the Royal Plowing Ceremony, the potential of oil revenues must feel completely removed from their hand-to-mouth lives. What will they do if a drought does indeed strike this year, and their crops wilt in the tropical sun? If the sacred cows know...
...first inter-school center, the Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, celebrated its 20th anniversary this weekend, and its graduates, benefactors, and current members turned out in force to eat, drink, and—of course—debate. A keynote address on Friday by Lamont University Professor Amartya Sen, a former fellow at the center, and two panels on ethics drew prominent guests and speakers alike, including former Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine, Harvard Corporation member Nannerl O. Keohane, and University President Derek C. Bok, who was a driving force behind the center’s creation in the 1980s...
...Although they take a very different line from the AEI on Iraq, a number of influential Democrats have lent their weight to similar initiatives on Iran, out of concern for Israel. On Wednesday, Sen. Barack Obama, the Illinois Democratic presidential hopeful and advocate for withdrawing most U.S. forces from Iraq within a year, joined with Democratic Congressmen Barney Frank of Massachusetts and Tom Lantos of California to propose legislation that would encourage individual and institutional investors, such as state pension funds, to dump stock implicated in trade with Iran...