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While “recruiting teaching fellows has become more challenging,” the basic teaching style and course structure is still the same, and there is plenty of space left in Sanders Theater, Mankiw said...
...They didn’t run their whole repertoire, so it was pretty basic of what we saw in the one film we had,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said of Brown’s first-week performance...
...always, there are huge differences in achievement from state to state. Massachusetts is the brightest light. Not only does it have the highest average math and reading scores overall, it also has the highest percentages of students achieving at an "advanced" level and the fewest at a level below "basic". (NAEP scores fall into four categories: Advanced, Proficient, Basic, Below Basic...
...other end of the spectrum is Washington, D.C., which, despite some progress, remains the shame of the nation. A staggering 51% of its 4th grade kids and 66% of 8th graders perform below basic level in math and 61% of District 4th graders read below a basic level. Also in the reading hall of shame are Mississippi, with 49% of 4th graders reading below the basic level; Louisiana with 48% at the bottom; and California with 47% of its 4th graders reading below basic...
...larger purpose. "Every member of the United Nations must join in this mission of liberation," he said, ticking through the declaration's list of "rights" to protection from poverty, illiteracy and disease. That's a fairly progressive position: liberal economists, like Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, have said that basic human rights, like the right to vote, are only as good the social and economic rights that allow for them to be exercised effectively. Bush would never endorse the establishment of such broad rights, which tend to be guaranteed only in welfare states, but he is claiming some of those ideals...