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...front end, then we needed to put up a pan-Indian business in terms of the procurement," says Sanjeev Asthana, president of Reliance's agri-and-food supply chain. Because profit margins are thin in the grocery business, shipping delays and spoiled merchandise can be harmful to the bottom line. "You cannot afford to have an unreliable supply," says Asthana...
...state officials confidence that the multiple choice test scores are a true reflection of actual learning. Since the system was installed eight years ago, he says, the statewide writing scores on average have lined up "almost perfectly" with results on both math and reading proficiency tests. "Ours is a bottom-up model," Christensen says. "It begins in the classroom with instruction that's aligned to our standards and extends to assessments developed locally that are tied to how well students apply concepts and problem solve, rather than simply memorize facts and figures and dates that they can't remember...
...first time in 10 years, much was expected this year. But last weekend, the lingering questions were answered. The Black and White were back at the NCAAs, racing against the best twelve crews in the nation. At the championships, the team raced well but finished near the bottom of the best, as no squad reached a Grand Final. Each crew, from the varsity eight to the varsity four, finished just out of a shot at gold with fourth-place performances in their respective semifinal heats. As a result, the team tallied an 11th-place finish at the championships...
...better yet, Mississippi's. In 2005, 89% of fourth-graders in Mississippi were rated proficient in reading--the highest percentage in the nation. But when Mississippi youngsters sat for the rigorous NAEP--the closest thing to a national gold standard--they landed at the bottom: just 18% of fourth-graders made the grade in reading. States that have a tough curriculum and correspondingly tough exams--such as California and Massachusetts--are delivering a more rigorous education, but they're setting themselves up to fail in NCLB's terms...
...respect? It's not that critics treat any game show as if it were The Sopranos. But even within the world of game shows, there's a caste system. At the bottom, of course, is National Bingo Night. At the top are the scholarly quiz shows, which reward what we are conditioned from school to think of as "learning." Somewhere in the great liked-but-not-respected middle are the daytime shows like Price made for people outside the 9-to-5 working world...