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...cannot shake money out of empty coffers. This spring a report by the National Commission on Excellence in Education found that teacher training programs needed substantial improvement and that too few top students are attracted to the profession. While urging that all salaries be raised, the commission proposed that superior teachers be rewarded with merit increases, a concept traditionally opposed by both unions on the ground that such bonuses might be awarded unfairly...
...American citizen, but first and last a Korean, I felt your article gave an extremely negative view of the Korean people. You quote a sociologist as saying that the Japanese regard Koreans as "Mortimer Snerds." Well, these assumed "superior Asians" have much to learn before making ignorant, prejudicial generalizations about Koreans...
Mondale, who is actively seeking the N.E.A. endorsement, has generally avoided the issue of merit differentials. On Friday, however, he edged a bit closer to endorsing the idea. Said he: "If merit pay means rewarding superior teachers and getting incompetent ones out of the classroom, then...
...sure, L.A.'s Japanese Americans have good reason to feel established, if not superior. A neighborhood of Japanese immigrants was thriving downtown in Little Tokyo when Beverly Hills was empty land. The area, which was renamed Bronzeville during World War II when its residents were interned, has been retaken by the Japanese, and is again a main gathering spot for 175,000 Japanese-Americans scattered around the county. A brand new, $12.6 million cultural complex provides reminders of home: a lush, still garden of camphor and golden-rain trees, a sleek theater for Japanese-language productions, a brick plaza...
...industry watcher: "A game company has to keep ahead technologically-invent and reinvent. If you don't have both the marketing and technical savvy, you're going to get killed." That is indeed what happened, when other video-game manufacturers came out with products that had superior graphics...