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...learned how to always be happy, be patient and to be positive, and this is what I want to teach to the next generation.' RIYO MORI, Miss Universe 2007, during the May 28 competition in Mexico City. The 20-year-old dancer from Shizuoka, Japan, beat out 77 other contestants to claim the title...
...face of our country. I haven't ever met him or talked to him, but he's the first person in a long time who I've been inspired by. CLOONEY: When other politicians stop and listen, that's how you know what charisma is. You can't teach that. He walks into a room and you go, "That's a leader...
...officials as part of a peer review of their test-making methods. "What we've got that no one else has is a cadre of teachers in the state who are as assessment literate as any educators on the face of the earth," Christensen says. "They know how to teach to an outcome, to measure the outcome with high technical quality, and they know how to use that information to improve instruction...
...achieve these goals. NCLB takes the Federal Government--which contributes only 9¢ of every $1 spent on U.S. schools--where it's never gone before: telling the states how to measure school success, specifying interventions for failure, mandating qualifications for teachers and even telling the nation how to teach reading. This year, as the five-year-old law comes up for debate, an unforgiving spotlight will be focused on its impact thus far, including its numerous unintended consequences. Many teachers are enraged by the law's reliance on high-stakes exams that lead schools like Blaine to focus relentlessly...
...problem because most have a uniform national curriculum and national tests. But that approach has been politically unacceptable in the U.S., where schools are largely funded and controlled at the state and local levels. Besides, says Spellings, "do you really want me sitting in Washington working on how we teach evolution or creationism? I don't want...