Word: supportable
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...places a year," said Professor of Social Science Joan W. Scott of the School of Social Science at the Princeton Institute. "We could take twice or three times as many every year who are just as good. All this can do is add to the still scarce researches that support research outside of teaching...
However, research shows that voucher systems in Cleveland and Milwaukee were not effective. Cleveland voucher students did markedly worse than their public-school counterparts on standard tests. Mark Peterson's studies used to support alleged gains by voucher students have been criticized for serious sampling errors and unfair comparisons...
Finally, rather than providing an incentive for public schools to improve, vouchers would take needed money and political support away from this system. Indeed, despite the rhetoric, the true goal for most advocates of vouchers is not to help public education but to transfer public money to church and suburban schools that serve the better-off white middle class...
...directors of programs serve as "professional support staff" for the student program directors who coordinate the service groups' day-to-day affairs...
...from Milosevic toward meeting NATO's demands, particularly on the nature of a peacekeeping force for Kosovo." Awkward as it may be, the diplomatic dance may be the only show in town. Even as NATO mounted new air raids and Washington ordered 33,000 reserves into the theater to support an escalated air war, NATO commander Wesley Clark acknowledged that the air campaign has had little effect on Serb operations in Kosovo. And its political cost may grow as the alliance acknowledged Wednesday that one of its precision-guided bombs had missed its target in southern Serbia and landed...