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...what should schools do when eliminating standardized tests, one clear measure of skill assessment, seems also to destroy accountability? In the decentralized American education system, the large amounts of public money spent on tests should instead be used in individual schools to improve teaching and ensure that both student skill and character are powerfully cultivated. In my middle school, for example, students who excelled in math were bused to the nearby high school to take more advanced classes. At the same time, classes at the middle school itself accommodated the skills of all other students. This emphasis on actually learning...
...proposed new thinking substantially lowers the threshold for launching nuclear strikes - it even calls for a new generation of tactical "bunker-buster" nukes to destroy underground arsenals of biological weapons. Not exactly a doomsday weapon of last resort. And the idea of giving nuclear weapons a more everyday function in military thinking has certainly shocked both America's allies and its adversaries...
...most recent Nuclear Posture Review provides a glimpse of the current administration’s vision for America’s nuclear weapons. They should only be used if nations like China, Iraq and North Korea attack areas of vital American interest, or as advanced earth-penetrating weapons to destroy deeply-buried enemy bunkers containing weapons of mass destruction. Though the Pentagon should have contingency plans for nuclear retaliation if another country initiates a first-strike, the U.S. should never be the first to use nuclear force...
...peculiarity of the episode in December 1992 was the collusion between the Congress government in New Delhi and the main opposition party of the country, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which was in the forefront of the movement to destroy the mosque built, it said, where the revered Hindu god Rama was born. The Congress Prime Minister at the time, P.V. Narasimha Rao, in a modern variation of the Nero legend, slept while the mosque was being destroyed. Even his Cabinet colleagues were not allowed to disturb his sleep, according to numerous statements made by them (after he lost power...
...Myeongdong Cathedral, the time-honored sanctuary of unionists and student rebels on the run. Lee and 20 other union members took refuge after police issued arrest warrants accusing them of launching illegal strikes to protest the government's plan to sell power plants to private investors. Privatization could destroy the economy, warns Lee: "The people know it's not right...