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...infected in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and AIDS will leave millions of children parentless. Even if the drugs that are available can only preserve life by 10-15 years, those years are critical if communities are to survive. And beyond either of these arguments is a basic humanitarian obligation. With effective life-extending AIDS drugs available at prices below $1,000 a year, allowing millions to perish would be a monstrous sin of omission...
Members of the committee, who publish the popular CUE guide to courses, responded warmly to the idea, which Gusmorino said would provide quick answers to students' basic concerns about concentrations...
Diagnostic testing has a definite appeal. It is essential that the state and federal governments ensure that elementary and middle school students are being educated in the basic skills of reading and math, and that they are being given the opportunity to succeed in future learning. The state tests will show the relative progress of different schools, and the national sampling will allow comparisons among state standards. It is important to know what extra help is needed for students, and testing the basics can provide this information...
...reading and math. However, standardization often forces teachers to base their curriculum on an upcoming exam. When teachers are restricted to "teaching for the test," students education becomes narrowly focused towards performance on these exams. It is therefore important that the tests, which are not yet written, should stress basic knowledge rather than a set curriculum or SAT-like "test-taking ability." America's teachers need the freedom to teach students using the methods that best fit their particular classrooms...
...That a possible upset is the basic appeal of the Big Dance is indeed an interesting notion, because that attitude is not exactly prevalent in all sports...