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Gates said that both health and education can be improved by simple fixes with increased research, noting that while teacher quality has a significant role in improving student performance, it remains unclear what exactly constitutes an exemplary teacher...
...reason why we oppose extending teacher hours without extra compensation is that the policy seeks to improve teachers by punishing them rather than providing an incentive to improve. In addition, it unfairly burdens teachers who lead extra-curricular activities, have families to care for, or work second jobs. We cannot expect teachers to thoroughly and enthusiastically teach in the classroom if they are not paid adequately for their work and feel their time is not adequately appreciated...
During an eight-day stretch, a small group of parents and children repeatedly occupied the office of Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle, trying to draw attention to the teacher furloughs that have closed public schools for 13 Fridays since last fall. The families did homework together, made posters for their cause and five times stayed overnight...
...list how many of the organizers of the subway bombings had been killed, but said the perpetrators had been identified and were being pursued. Those investigations have focused on the brother and husband of Maryam Sharipova, the 28-year-old computer science teacher who allegedly blew herself up in the subway just beneath Lubyanka Square, the home of Bortnikov's FSB. The hunt for the man said to be her husband and his associates has been used to justify this week's crackdown in Dagestan. But Sharipova's father, Rasul Magomedov, told The Associated Press on April 6 that...
...worked closely for many years in the Vatican doctrinal office. The Secretary of State job has enormous responsibility, essentially serving as Vatican Prime Minister, charged with making the wheels of the billion-strong church turn smoothly, while the Pope focuses on being shepherd to the flock and teacher in chief. Though well liked, the tall and bespectacled Salesian from Italy's northern Piedmont region has not been getting good reviews. "Bertone is a disaster," a Vatican official told me before the latest public brouhaha. "He doesn't have a sense of how things work outside of Italy...