Word: performancee
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LEVY: Let me be blunt: I think you need ruthless leadership that is prepared to tackle really ancient problems of management in order to get the best teachers teaching those who are less able to get performance out of students. I have intentionally used the language of management for the...
The 25 Boston teenagers marched last Monday down the city's famed Freedom Trail, past Paul Revere's home, to the office of Massachusetts Governor Paul Cellucci. They were armed with 800 letters of protest and a simple demand: that the Governor sit for the standardized test that will soon...
While few dispute the need to gauge student achievement, many are beginning to challenge the calculators. In practice, the tests have spawned an epidemic of distressing headlines: students failing--and being held back--en masse; frenzied parents enrolling first-graders in professional test-prep courses; property values being influenced by...
But many users are likely to throw caution to the winds. Competition within sports is so intense that athletes seem willing to try almost anything to improve performance. Half of surveyed athletes, many of them Olympians, admitted recently that they'd be willing to take a drug even if it...
A survey of more than 1,000 students found kids as early as sixth grade turning to creatine for its supposedly magical powers. That's not hard to believe, considering that such sports heroes as home-run hitters Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa have admitted taking the stuff. In the...