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Already in Wisconsin, the prospect of grant money has unions agreeing to allow standardized testing to be a factor in teacher evaluation so long as it is not used as grounds for firing. While this may lead to bad teachers simply cycling through the worst schools, this compromise is leagues better than the stagnation so characteristic of public-school policy. It is an encouraging sign that Race to the Top is already working before even a single dollar has been spent...
...Wire,” set in Baltimore, focused on a different feature of city life each season from 2002 to 2008. The fourth season, in which True-Frost portrayed the police-officer-turned-teacher Roland “Prez” Pryzbylewski, centered around the city’s school system...
...their nominee speak. For many in the excited crowd, it's their first political event. "This one feels big because the whole country is paying attention to it because it's a change in the attitude: people are fed up with Washington," says Lisa Manser, 42, a Leesburg, Va., teacher who had knocked on doors as a campaign volunteer for the first time in her life earlier that...
...some positive aspects to climate change. The resulting skepticism among environmental groups turned to outrage in early October , when a senior official of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said that climate science should be put "on trial" like in the famous 1925 Scopes Monkey case, in which a Tennessee teacher was prosecuted for teaching evolution rather than creationism. The statement, by William Kovacs, the Chamber's vice president for policy, was later disowned by the Chamber, but the damage was already done...
...because the family members of two of the men presumably buried with Lorca - anarchist banderillero Francisco Galadí and teacher Dióscoro Galindo - wished to recover their remains, the poet's descendants have decided, at last, to allow the exhumation to happen. But the Lorca family has thus far declined to participate in the laborious DNA testing that geneticist José Lorente and his team will conduct on some of the remains. "If the family doesn't give us tissue samples for us to establish the [family] DNA, those remains will never be identified," Lorente says...