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...blew out of proportion any expression of discontent with testing. For example, in Massachusetts a few hundred kids boycotted the state test, but 99.8% did take the exams. Tests provide teachers, parents, school officials and public officials with information to address education problems. The recent spate of state exams has spurred unprecedented attention to the needs of low-performing students. Education cannot function without reliable information about its effectiveness. DIANE RAVITCH New York City...
...broad outlines of Viking culture and achievement have been known to experts for decades, but a spate of new scholarship, based largely on archaeological excavations in Europe, Iceland, Greenland and Canada, has begun to fill in the elusive details. And now the rest of us have a chance to share in those discoveries with the opening last week of a wonderfully rich exhibition titled "Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga" at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington...
...spate of critical press about you over the past few years affected the amount of autobiographical material you put into your films? How far ahead do you actually plan the films...
Well, it certainly sounds promising, but I worry about all those traditions being lost. I refer to the spate of online universities that are being planned--cyberspace institutions that will compete with, possibly replace, established schools such as Harvard, Yale and Bob Jones. Skeptical of their efficacy, Stanley Ikenberry, president of the American Council on Education, said that higher learning means more than mere mastery of content. "It involves judgment, analysis, synthesis, communication, creativity and innovation," he noted. That may be so, but fortunately such achievements have never been associated with the college experience. My concern is what else will...
...also not saying we're not the ones - let's give the government a puzzle." Although Philippines officials were skeptical of the claims, the group - which has been eclipsed by the larger Moro Islamic Liberation Front, currently in negotiations with the government - has resorted in recent months to a spate of kidnappings in a desperate bid to maintain its relevance...