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...Obama’s multilateral and diplomatic policies will be much more effective at providing the aid sooner and more effectively than the Bush administration’s contentious deliberation style. Furthermore, an Obama administration will be more likely to view such massive and terrible displacements out of the context of their potential economic consequences for the United States...
...school’s wide-open application process might seem paradoxical to some, especially when considered in the context of many of the University’s other schools, which have fought diligently for decades to maintain the nation’s most statistically exacting admissions standards. Last year, the College, for instance, admitted a mere 7.1 percent of applicants. Harvard Law School typically admits 11 percent of applicants, and Harvard Medical School admits just over 3 percent of candidates seeking admission...
...Instead of teaching the theory behind probability or standard deviations, Testa shows the students how to apply these skills in the context of particular case studies, for example...
...world leaders tripping over themselves to salute their freshly minted colleague Barack Obama, just as for news anchors across the globe struggling to put Obama's victory into context, only one word seems to do the trick: historic. Repetition of that portentous adjective could have dulled its impact. But the sheer scale of the world's interest - the blanket media coverage; the election-watching parties, some slickly organized, others spontaneous; the fascination that overrode time zones and deep-seated political apathy to keep people glued for hours to radios and televisions and computers and, yes, Twitter - all served as reminders...
...American public schools is “solvable,” and that Americans have “a sense of responsibility to take this problem on.” Second, the TFA administrators have grown to understand the qualities needed to be a great teacher in the context of perpetually under-served schools, something which remains a continual learning process. Last, Kopp emphasized that TFA alone is not sufficient to solve America’s public education crisis. “We need to do a whole lot more than expect our teachers alone will solve this problem...