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...schools where kids are struggling to read and subtract, it is a prerequisite for getting anything else done. In their defense, Washington teachers and principals, like educators in many of the country's worst school districts, talk about trying to teach a seventh-grader who is eight months pregnant; about being assaulted by students; about holding meetings for parents, replete with free food, and no one showing up. Washington Teachers' Union leader George Parker worries that test-score data cannot take all this into account: "I don't think our teachers are afraid of demonstrating student growth, but you have...
...most glaring example of the backward logic of schools is the way most teachers receive lifetime job security after one or two years of work. As Larry Rosenstock, CEO of eight California charter schools, noted at an education panel last spring, we don't give that kind of job security to pilots or doctors--or any others who hold our children's fate in their hands: "What is it that is so exceptional about teachers that they should have this unique right...
...Didn't the government already rescue Citigroup? True, this is not the first government handout. On Oct. 13, Treasury told Citi and eight other large banks that it would be buying billions of dollars worth of stock in their institutions, the opening move in a mass recapitalization plan for the banking sector. Citi got $25 billion in exchange for preferred shares on which it is to pay 5% interest for five years and then...
...that led the rejuvenated Crimson in the second half as Harvard lost its lead again only once. He garnered 19 of his points in the period, including nine points from the new longer-range three-point line.Harvard freshman Keith Wright made his presence known, as well, pulling down eight of his 12 boards in the second half, including seven offensive rebounds.Three freshmen started for the Crimson last night, including Wright and guards Oliver McNally and Max Kenyi. Kenyi was the only other Crimson player in double digits, notching 13 points, including eight perfect free throw attempts.Senior forward Evan Harris chipped...
...state of Barinas, on Venezuela's poor llanos, or plains, where the president's brother Adan held off a strong challenge from a breakaway Chávista candidate. The PSUV also took about two-thirds of the total national vote and kept the opposition from winning the seven or eight states it needed to stun Chávez. If the radical, anti-U.S. firebrand showed anything, it's that his red-beret power and popularity are relatively intact...