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...carpet bomb the area." Her comments were quickly followed by outraged condemnations of warmongering in a wounded city. Yet she was tapping into a very real emotion. "We've let them get away too many times," says Rohan Gohil, a real estate agent in Mumbai. "But now we should teach them a lesson once...
...Under parental pressure, the bishop demanded that the school shelve the books. The school’s nuns refused, arguing that it was their academic right to teach the modern canons regardless of the content. In response, the bishop threatened to remove the school from the Catholic diocese—an act that would freeze the school’s funding...
...measure in an industry with precious few. And in schools where kids are struggling to read and subtract, it is a prerequisite for getting anything else done. In their defense, Washington teachers and principals, like educators in many of the country's worst school districts, talk about trying to teach a seventh-grader who is eight months pregnant; about being assaulted by students; about holding meetings for parents, replete with free food, and no one showing up. Washington Teachers' Union leader George Parker worries that test-score data cannot take all this into account: "I don't think our teachers...
Right now, schools assess teachers before they teach--filtering for candidates who are certified, who have a master's degree, who have other pieces of paper that do not predict good teaching. And we pay them the same regardless of their effectiveness...
...very lucky, in working for these magazines, to learn by doing, but I always regretted not having a formal education. I had to teach myself...