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...spends a midcareer year going to school there. Most of these officers are headed to Iraq or Afghanistan, and the curriculum has been revised to include intensive language courses in Arabic and Pashtu, the history and culture of Islam, a hefty dose of counterinsurgency strategy and tactics, plus the standard military disciplines. I came away inspired and infuriated: if only the Bush Administration?and the public?took the mission as seriously as the Army does! What a shame that we've inserted these fine people into such a mess...
...Americans want to maintain their customary high standard of living in today's global economy, we've got to rethink almost every aspect of our education system, including when kids finish high school and who runs our schools. That was the conclusion of a blistering report from a blue-ribbon panel called the New Commission on Skills of the American Workforce, released Thursday in an all-day event in Washington, D.C. The commission of heavyweights included four former cabinet secretaries, the president of the American Manufacturers Association, the chancellor of the California State University system, executives from Viacom...
...Stratus, Estrada and Acuna, along with La Toya Jackson and Jack Osbourne, had received standard reserve officer training, including the use of firearms. In the series, which will be in production for three more weeks in Muncie and will premiere on Jan. 10, the celebrities wear black uniforms like all the other members of the force. "They hit the streets to fight crime and give a little something back," says executive producer Tom Forman...
...Paying suspects isn't exactly standard operating police procedure, but hey, this is reality TV. Although Walker's mother, Dorothy Woods, told Muncie's Star-Press newspaper that she felt producers were trolling low-income neighborhoods where residents are more likely to need the cash, Forman says the money is nothing more than a "gesture of goodwill" for people who have signed waivers. His crew also gives away T-shirts. "Most people said it was the most fun they'd had in a long time, " he adds...
...Tuesday’s meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), the Committee on Graduate Education’s (CGE) legislation to mandate evaluations of all Teaching Fellows (TFs) passed without a whisper of holding the Faculty to the same standard. While the Faculty’s desire to focus the meeting on curricular reform is understandable, it is utterly dismaying that a quick, easy consensus could not be reached on asking professors to be held accountable in the same way TFs will...