Word: problems
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...very well," he said in New Orleans on Thursday, before trotting out a middle-class family that would profit from his plan. "Let me start over." It is an axiom of politics that the side in trouble always uses as its first excuse that it has got a communication problem, not a substance problem. So Bush figures that if he could just explain his tax cut better, the voting public would like it more...
...Vatican has exhumed far more than just a venerable body. "I am appalled that the Catholic Church wants to make a saint out of a Pope who perpetuated...an act of unacceptable intolerance," declared a professor named Elena Mortara in Rome. Pio Nono, it turns out, had a Jewish problem of his own. Mortara is the great-grandniece of Edgardo Mortara, who was taken from his Jewish parents at age six in 1858 by the papal police and raised--in part by Pius himself--as a Catholic. The incident typified Pius' ham-fisted treatment of the Jews, and many feel...
...cold war, conflicts were neater," he explains. "You had client states [that] could be controlled. Here you are dealing with warlords who don't understand the outside world and don't care. Unless we are prepared to counter force with force, there is very little we can do. The problem is that you have countries like the U.S. that will not accept a single casualty. And that philosophy is spreading...
...Good tests should include a mix of essays, problem solving, short answers and even some multiple-choice questions. On math quizzes, students should be able to show how they arrived at their answer. The tests widely used today often rely too much on multiple-choice questions, which encourage guessing rather than thinking. Also, they often ignore the importance of knowledge. Today's history tests, for example, seldom expect the student to know any history - sometimes derided as "mere facts" - but only to be able to read charts, graphs and cartoons...
...state exam, from about 35% in the late 1980s to 40% through most of the 1990s. The Texas Education Agency dismisses Haney's calculations as inflated, and says it has measures in place, such as factoring a school's minority-dropout rate into its overall ranking, to check the problem. But the agency concedes that its dropout figures - about 58,000 blacks and Hispanics since 1996 - may be under the mark by as many as 20,000 students...