Word: approaching
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Both sides cite statistical studies and anecdotal evidence to support their case. Unfortunately, statistical studies in education are notoriously unreliable--blind studies, for example, are difficult to construct. And for every charismatic teacher who succeeds with a "progressive" approach in the classroom, there are other teachers who manage to raise test scores dramatically by "going back to basics...
Last week, over 200 Haitian refugees were found stranded, without food and water, after a failed attempt to escape the escalating violence in their homeland as elections approach. The stories that emerge from refugees sound like they have emerged from a war zone. Some refugees who had been involved with the electoral campaign said that they had received death threats. "We were in misery," said Francisco Martinez, a Haitian whose parents were from the Dominican Republic, to the New York Times last week. "The chiefs in Haiti are killing people. They burn down houses...
...approach is one more of partnership than quid pro quo," Galluccio says. "[I want] Harvard not reacting to the city, but Harvard joining the city...
Braude, however, repeated his more aggressive approach yesterday, saying Harvard's adoption of a living wage is "not a complicated issue...
Galluccio says he is "not judgmental" of Braude and Decker's approach...