Word: cannot
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...test teachers to make sure they know their subject matter, as well as how to teach it to young children. And this is why it is reasonable to assess whether students are ready to advance to the next grade or graduate from high school. To promote students who cannot read or do math is no favor to them. It is like pushing them into a deep pool before they have learned to swim. If students need extra time and help, they should get it, but they won't unless we first carefully assess what they have learned...
...cannot see that far. For now, we assume that self-evolving robots will learn to mimic human traits, including, eventually, humor. And so, I can't wait to hear the first joke that one robot tells to another robot...
...Each, in its own way, picks up where the conventions left off, in Bush's case literally: His 30-second "Education Agenda" opens with him on the podium in Philadelphia, decrying that "seven of ten fourth graders in our highest-poverty schools cannot read a simple children's book." (That sentence, by the way, I believe consitutes the most consecutive numbers Dubya has yet strung together in a public speech...
...November, it'll mean the end of four years of Clinton-Gore." (He meant eight years, of course.) Next, outlining his trade policy, he promised, "I will work to end terrors," only to catch himself and hastily make it "tariffs and barriers." His policy on national security: "We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile." His audience seemed not to mind the bloopers. He was cheered repeatedly...
...Lieberman possesses the tragic sense that's one of Judaism's hard-earned cultural gifts to Western civilization, he has managed to subordinate it to an all-American contentment. "I grew up in a multiethnic, multiracial, multireligious community, and I was lucky," Lieberman told TIME last week. "I cannot remember a single instance of anti-Semitism in my youth. That undoubtedly is why I'm so optimistic about the country and about people judging me fairly...