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...ultimate deciders at the federal Department of Education have assured him that STARS passes NCLB muster. "Nebraska is a place where the concepts of family and community still work," Christensen says. "Our public schools are embedded in those communities and those families. So why wouldn't we first trust those folks? We believe you create the capacity at the local level to do the right thing in the first place, and then you don't need the state or federal government looking over your shoulder...
...casualties were killed on Memorial Day, and beyond the irony, what's important is how eight of them perished. They weren't carrying out Petraeus's orders to mingle with local Iraqis in an effort to foster trust and glean tips on the insurgency. Rather, a pair of them died when their OH-58D Kiowa scout helicopter crashed 60 miles north of Baghdad - and six more were killed in roadside bombings as they rushed to the aid of the downed chopper crew. The Pentagon hasn't said whether the helicopter was hit by hostile fire, but the fact that rescuers...
...Qaim, foreign jihadists not too long ago antagonized local Sunni tribal leaders; and now the Americans have used that local history to win cooperation from the same maligned tribes, recruiting personnel for the Iraqi army and police. "It's in our best interest to train them and trust them," Vistek says. "We've got their back whether they know it or not. We just hope that they'll return the favor...
...agree” despite knowing the opposite to be true. “Some people will nod yes while grimacing.”But Verba defends the libraries’ current structure. “We’ve built a group of people who get along and trust each other,” Verba said. “It works as well as an institution like that could work.”Darnton says he understands that his post is a “diplomatic job,” much as Verba has described it in the past...
...leading legal scholar in trusts and estates will leave the New York University School of Law to join the Harvard Law School faculty next fall. The appointment of Robert H. Sitkoff to the tenure-track professorship is the Law School’s fifth appointment of the year, and comes just a week after the Law School announced that Gabriella Blum and D. James Greiner would be joining the faculty as assistant professors. The other two professors who were appointed earlier in the year were Kathryn Spier of Northwestern University’s School of Management and School...