Word: supportive
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...major debate between the two candidates has focused on teacher accountability and the merit of high-stakes testing to measure school success. Gore, unwilling to pressure the teachers' unions from which he derives a significant chunk of his support, would encourage schools to use voluntary testing to measure progress and merely requires that failing schools be identified. Yet without mandated testing to measure failing schools, a missing link exists between identifying these schools and fixing them...
...Gore-Lieberman campaign has wavered in its support for voucher-related programs. Though Gore refuses to consider the solution, Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) was a staunch supporter of vouchers until he joined the ticket. Bush, however, supports giving $1,500 per child in federal funding to the parents of students at consistently low-performing schools for use towards their children's education. As this money could go to a public school, tutoring or a private school, charges that the plan would take away money from public schools are essentially unfounded. Bush also saves money by allowing public-private...
...talk about it. Where is the open dialogue, Harvard? What happened to our search for veritas? Instead of seeking the truth regarding the Israeli/Palestinian conflict the school has divided itself into three groups: on one side those who are pro-Israel (not anti-Arab), on the other those who support Palestine (not anti-Jew) and in the middle lie the rest--held hostage by the conflicting viewpoints flying around them. The result? People just don't want to talk about it anymore. Our campus has fallen victim to a virus fatal to an institution of higher learning: fear of speaking...
...willing to confront the difficult ones. Say that Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount is directly responsible for the recent outbreak of violence. Say that Israel has the right to use all powers at its disposal to defend its soldiers and citizens against mob violence. Say you support a Palestinian state. Say you oppose any kind of Palestinian sovereignty in Jerusalem. But don't say that you don't want to talk about it. Those whose lives are in the balance deserve more than that...
Such praise, he said, will help generate support at the highest administrative levels for similar projects...