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...that support serious reform. The American Federation of Teachers says clear standards would help ensure that teachers are effectively trained, objectively judged and provided with proven teaching tools and curriculums. "Common, coherent, grade-by-grade standards promote effective professional development," the union wrote in a 2008 report that criticized weak state standards. "A shared understanding of what students should know and be able to do enables the best kind of professional development: collegial efforts to share best practices." Randi Weingarten, the president of the union, argues that a national-standards approach would help students while still allowing teachers...
...progress in directing resources to shared University priorities.” Financial aid at the College, for example, has been a strategic priority in the past. And the amount spent on aid next year is expected to increase by 18 percent, as more families suffer the effects of a weak economy. The strategic payout has previously helped to support faculty expansion and renovation of student space at the Law School, as well as the Medical School’s fledgling Department of Systems Biology, which received seed funding over a five-year period as part of a University-wide effort...
...soldiers died in a 1993 firefight memorialized in Black Hawk Down. As a reminder of the volatile environment, local insurgents on Monday fired mortar rounds at a private plane ferrying U.S. Congressman Donald Payne out of Mogadishu after he had visited with the head of the country's weak new transitional government. (See pictures of the brazen pirates of Somalia...
...overestimated the purchasing power of Oregon’s vegan chauvinists—he recently put his strip club up for sale on craigslist—other prominent vegan activists display a similar willingness to exchange the objectification of animals for the objectification of women. Typically defended by the weak retort “sex sells,” these endeavors have prompted critics to brand veganism as a sexist ideology—a damaging charge given veganism’s place within a broader progressive program. PETA has unapologetically commandeered the female body to promote its agenda, from...
...please all the people all the time. And if you needed more convincing that our current president is different from all other presidents, note that even though Clinton's staff also held seders, Clinton himself did not participate. Besides, the thought of Obama in a kippah makes FlyBy weak in the knees...