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...unreliable indicators of student performance. "Our disappointment is clear," says Kay Brilliant, director of education policy and practice for the National Educators Association, the nation's largest teachers' union. "If it's going to be more of the same, more NCLB [No Child Left Behind], more testing and minimal support, then we're not interested." Duncan admits he is tackling the Everest of entrenched interests with this particular reform. "It's pretty controversial," he says of the rule. "But to say that great teaching doesn't matter and should be disconnected from student outcomes, to me, is ludicrous...
...states get ready to apply for funding, the opposition is still strategizing. "Are the unions going to tell legislators that they're dead ducks if they support this?" says Chester Finn, president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and a leading education reformer. "I bet not. But they'll definitely work hard to soften the RTT language and then work to undermine the implementation." The Administration believes it can overcome resistance to its plans. Eight states have amended or removed laws to make themselves friendlier to charter schools, partly in anticipation of Duncan's pot of gold. And California Governor...
...stamps to buy surplus butter, eggs and prunes in Rochester, N.Y. McFiggin was the first person to take advantage of the experimental program, designed to improve on Depression-era commodity-distribution systems developed to aid the needy and unload surplus wheat and other products bought by the government to support farm prices. Food stamps originally came in two colors: recipients bought orange stamps, which could be used for any kind of food, and they were given half that amount in free blue stamps, which could be used to buy designated surplus foods (all but the most destitute had to make...
...necessity can make history obsolete. As proof, the Obama Administration has launched a full-court press to win Shelby's support for its financial-reform proposals, which the President will push Sept. 14 in a noon speech at Federal Hall on New York City's Wall Street. "We are in almost daily contact with [Shelby's] staff and have been going over the proposal with them literally line by line," says a senior Treasury department official. Shelby and the Senate Banking chair, Democrat Chris Dodd, have also been working together closely. "[Shelby's] folks are deeply engaged and we share...
...fair two years ago as a recruiter. And Mount said the recession market may also favor underclassmen and graduating seniors who are competing for the more widely-available entry-level jobs, rather than mid-level positions. The fair generates revenue for OCS, which will use the money to help support fall programming. —Staff writer Danielle J. Kolin who can be reached at dkolin@fas.harvard.edu...