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...students, they fail to satisfy the ultimate goal of public education. Rather than move students to other schools, their current schools should be made better. And if fiscal incentives can effectively motivate teachers to increase student achievement, schools should utilize pay-for-performance systems in the short term. In the long term, however, rewarding an increase in performance with pay may not be sustainable. Rather, more fundamental changes must be made, such as raising teachers’ salaries. For the amount of time they spend in the classroom, creating lesson plans, grading homework, and working to make sure their students...
...meeting. “This was a useful start to a longer conversation,” he said. “These larger transportation challenges will certainly be addressed in due time, and nothing is off the table from the point of view of both short and long-term planning.” After Harvard representatives presented, resident Elizabeth Browne said that she was worried that the University’s additions to the neighborhood would benefit only parts of Allston. “Harvard students and staff are not the only ones who are coming...
...verge of halting the country's financial circulatory system. Anyone with money to lend was hoarding it and big institutions were starting a run on the money market funds that hold the hard-earned savings of millions of Americans and support $1.7 trillion in short-term borrowings U.S. businesses rely on to meet payrolls and stay afloat...
...Congress until we absolutely needed to. Because the worst thing would be to go to Congress, ask for it and not get it. And so it wasn't until last week when the markets were literally coming unglued that we needed to take a number of other emergency short-term actions, that we knew that we had to do something to get at the heart of that problem which was the housing correction and the illiquid assets...
...every American business from the biggest companies to small hardware companies need money to flow through the system not only to create new jobs but to sustain existing jobs. Most people when they think of businesses, they think of parts or supplies, they don't recognize they need short term funds to meet the payroll, to pay for inventories, and people understand the way credit cards work, and we have a lot of credit in the system, and if someone couldn't use their credit card they could understand the impact on businesses...