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...really enjoy teaching fiction in the Extension School,” he said. “A wide range of students enroll who bring with them a great deal of enthusiasm and determination. Their excitement is infectious...

Author: By Marissa A. Glynias, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Expos, Extended | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

Undergraduate Council members remained in the dark about the effects of University-wide budget cuts on the College as well as the potential ramifications of these cuts for the January term session after yesterday’s town hall meeting led by Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith. Smith announced six working groups that would be charged with finding areas for cost-reductions throughout FAS. But according to Smith, it remains to be decided whether these committees would include students. Two committees, one dedicated to “student services” and the other...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: UC Asks for Greater Input | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

...schools accountable. Fortunately, there are glimmers of hope that the politics surrounding national standards has become a little less contentious. A growing coalition of reformers - from civil rights activist Al Sharpton to Georgia Republican governor Sonny Perdue - believe that some form of common standards is necessary to achieve a wide array of other education reforms, including merit pay for good teachers and the expansion of the role of public charter schools. (See pictures of inside a public boarding school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Raise the Standard in America's Schools | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

...television operator, an online jewelry retailer and a finance house. But it is his latest venture that could end up having the biggest impact. In 2006 Ganley founded Libertas, a think tank that concentrated its scorn on the European Union. At the end of 2008 it became an E.U.-wide political party with the express aim of overhauling the institution it so often criticizes. "We are saddled with a tyranny of mediocrity," Ganley says. "It boggles the mind. Almost 80% of our laws now come from Brussels, and are drafted by unelected, unaccountable civil servants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How One Man Plans to Sink the European Union | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

...plenty of money to bankroll his new party. To hone his message, he has hired American Democratic campaign consultant Joe Trippi. Ganley talks of Libertas winning 70 seats in the 736-member European Parliament, more than enough to become a powerbroker between the other political groups. The only E.U.-wide poll, predict09.eu, suggests that Libertas could win a few seats but will fall well short of its stated goal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How One Man Plans to Sink the European Union | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

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