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Why do some folks insist on all-caps email subject lines and headers? So rude.
TEACHING AND THE MIRACLE IDEOLOGY. TAPPED
Just because some teachers are successful
at turning around the lives of a small number of impoverished children,
the thinking goes, it doesn't mean that it's fair to ask all "good"
teachers to perform such "miracles."
Teacher Incentive Fund. Yglesias
Some Senators represent states that
just basically don’t have the kind of high-poverty schools with high
concentrations of minorities that are the intended beneficiaries of
these sorts of reforms.
Fat Kids Also Dumb Gawker
Studentswho score higher on physical fitness tests also reliably score higher on math and reading tests, disproving the fat kid's standard "dumb jocks are dumb" defense.
Give Each Student a Kindle Bits Blog
The
paper proposes a year-long pilot program, during which some 400,000
students would receive reading devices. If judged a success, the
program would be gradually scaled up to include the entire student
population within four years. They estimate such a project would cost
about $9 billion more than the amount spent to acquire print textbooks.
Caps may be rude, but NO subject in the subject line is even worse.
Posted by: Nancy | July 15, 2009 at 13:20 PM