Word: spotlighting
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Many of us are skeptical when a candidate like Senator Barack H. Obama appears in the national spotlight. His promise to create a new kind of politics seems unsubstantiated and unrealistic. It is easy to assume that he is just a pretty face, one that will fade away as the long campaign season takes its toll...
...need to visit a school like Blaine. The astonishingly ambitious law, the Bush Administration's proudest domestic achievement, was crafted with high-poverty, low-achieving schools like this one in mind. NCLB proponents and critics alike agree that the law's greatest accomplishment has been shining an unforgiving spotlight on such languishing schools and demanding that they do better. At Blaine, for instance, only 13% of fifth- and eighth-graders were reading on grade level or above in 2004--a number that has since risen...
...spent on U.S. schools--where it's never gone before: telling the states how to measure school success, specifying interventions for failure, mandating qualifications for teachers and even telling the nation how to teach reading. This year, as the five-year-old law comes up for debate, an unforgiving spotlight will be focused on its impact thus far, including its numerous unintended consequences. Many teachers are enraged by the law's reliance on high-stakes exams that lead schools like Blaine to focus relentlessly on boosting scores rather than pursuing a broader vision of education. More than 30,000 educators...
...challenge, TWPD's Wagner says, is to keep abreast of all the changing forces in the wildlife global marketplace. It is not just American turtles that are in the spotlight. The proposed Texas rules will look at the harvesting of other species including lizards and snakes. Wildlife management is not just about checking fishing and deer hunting licenses any more; it's gone global. What's next? "Bayou Bob" Popplewell says he is already discussing a potential Chinese market for the feral hogs that plague so many Texas ranchers...
...until recently, Gates, who has three children ages 4 to 11, avoided the public spotlight, but that's begun to change. This year both she and her husband plan to take a visible role in making education a bigger issue in the 2008 election. "Getting it on the Presidential agenda is critical," she explains...