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...provided at discount rates, the junta would have to spend vastly more of its own money equipping the second largest army in Southeast Asia. This would leave far less to support the military's vast parallel social-welfare system, including separate health care and schools for soldiers, which is vital to ensuring the average grunt's loyalty to the generals rather than to the Burmese people...
...NCLB has overemphasized testing and accountability, and it has also overlooked some of the other things that are vital to the education of students. When restructuring a school in need of improvement, tutoring programs, after school programs, strong extracurriculars should also be required on top of the new classrooms and the new administrators. One valuable resource that is untapped by secondary schools is alumni. Each school should be pressured to have an alumni registrar. Alumni should be encourage to stay involved in these struggling schools by joining a parents board, by teaching, by giving speeches, or through volunteering. If kids...
...Child Left Behind Act of today, the federal government has put more pressure on states to develop tests that can be used to measure the proficiency of students in various topics . Unfortunately, the educational reform has overlooked some of the other things that are vital to the education of students. If all it took to improve the standard of learning in secondary schools were massive overhauls, then we would have had those high standards a couple billion dollars ago. Ronald K. Kamden ’10, a Crimson associate editorial chair, is an economics concentrator in Winthrop House...
...will begin with presentations on the Han Chinese military outposts in northwestern Korea, a subject that continues to inspire discussion almost 2,000 years later. Kim said that understanding the history of foreign relations with Korea’s neighbors—particularly with Japan—would prove vital in moving beyond the tragedies of the past. “The soil can become fertile if the past is used as a mirror for the future, or it can remain infertile if unresolved history is left as ongoing conflict,” he said in a lecture yesterday...
...Deep in the Pentagon, Air Force generals know that the Bush Administration's decision to close down the F-22 assembly line won't come into effect until 2010. That gives them time to convince a new Administration that additional F-22s are vital to U.S. security. That's because what Gates finds reasonable, some Air Force generals will treat as treasonable...