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...Neuman also regrets the Administration's use of humiliation and shame as a lever for school reform. Failure to meet NCLB's inflexible goals meant schools would be publicly labeled as failures. Neuman now sees this as a mistake: "Vilifying teachers and saying we are going to shame them was not the right approach...
...weight to actual practitioners,” pointing out that ancient doctors and craftsmen were often able to utilize practical knowledge before the theories behind their findings had been discovered. One example is the invention of the catapult well before Archimedes explained the principle of the lever...
...Kennedy often quoted Archimedes, who explained the science of the lever by asserting, “Give me a place to stand, and I can move the world.” Harvard isn’t such a bad place to stand. It’s ripe with individuals who seek to change the world in all fields of study, in all walks of life. It’s brimming with opportunity and information. Nowhere is it easier to be idealistic, nowhere is it easier to believe that so much is possible. But now, more than ever, it needs...
...French popular concern over human rights conditions in China took root only following the brutal suppression of unrest in Tibet last month. Images of that violence prepared the ground for groups like Reporters Without Frontiers, which have called on the French government to use the Beijing Games as a lever to pressure China to increase civil liberties and press freedom. It was in the wake of that spreading disquiet in France that President Nicolas Sarkozy became the first Western leader to suggest he might consider a boycott of the opening ceremonies to protest China's stance on human rights...
...emerging racial divide that has opened in the Democratic party between whites who tend by healthy margins to favor Clinton and blacks who overwhelmingly favor Obama. African Americans made up nearly half of the Democratic vote in Mississippi - and 90% of those voters, according to exit polls, pulled the lever for Obama, his strongest showing yet among African Americans. But Obama did poorly among whites, winning only 30%, according to exit polls. While this split was visible in Alabama and the border state of Tennessee earlier this year, it was visible in Ohio's primary last week...