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...There's pretty widespread agreement that the recovery, when it comes, won't be robust. "Even after a recovery gets underway, the rate of growth of real economic activity is likely to remain below its longer-run potential for a while," said Bernanke in his testimony to the Joint Economic Committee on Tuesday. That means unemployment will keep rising even after the economy has stopped shrinking. And if unemployment keeps rising, consumer spending won't rebound strongly, bank-loan losses will keep rising and a recessionary relapse isn't out of the question. The next monthly employment report, due Friday...
...punish her and that Shanno was epileptic, a claim her father denies. So far no action has been taken against the teacher. But her death has renewed calls to stop corporal punishment in schools; the issue is explosive because in India physical abuse in schools is widespread. According to a 2007 joint study by UNICEF, Save the Children and the Indian government, 65% of school-going children have faced corporal punishment. Ayub Khan, Shanno's father, a waiter without a regular job, says in an interview with TIME that he is determined "to get justice for his daughter." (See pictures...
...commonly called e-recruiting), can be a source of non-OCR opportunities. E-recruiting has become synonymous with on-campus interviews, but there are listings for jobs that do not offer on-campus interviews. Yet this aspect of the e-recruiting process receives little attention because OCR is so widespread...
...reauthorization of the No Child Left Act of 2001—which aimed to close the racial achievement gap—expected later this year, the Obama administration may see an opportunity to alter the way national education policy addresses the achievement gap issue. Ferguson said there is widespread support for transitioning to a model of accountability that measures relative gains in achievement compared to past years rather than relying on the absolute benchmarks currently in use. “It is not just about rules or threatening districts with sanctions for poor performance: it’s about creating...
...February, 24-year-old Li Qiaoming was beaten to death by other inmates in a jail in the southern province of Yunnan. The initial explanation, that he had died during a game of "elude the cat" - a type of "hide and seek" - touched off widespread indignation at the implausibility of the story. To respond to the outcry, provincial officials invited a group of bloggers and journalists to investigate the circumstances of Li's death. The unusual exercise in public participation stumbled when jail officials refused to provide critical pieces of evidence, including surveillance tapes of the detention center. The comments...