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Jejak Panda Terima Kasih Telah Kunjungin Web Kesayangan Anda bandarq terpercaya I generally hate political labels like liberal or conservative. I think they tend to categorize and limit rather than define and clarify, and they are often misnomers. How otherwise do you explain calling an environmental conservationist a liberal? Doesn’t wanting to conserve nature make one a conservative? That said, I acknowledge that for me becoming more conservative with age has meant changing my voter registration from Green to Democrat, and if I were a politician and one were to look at my voting record I would probably look more liberal than Ted Kennedy. On yet the other hand, I enjoy reading both ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’ political columns. My two favorite columnists are Molly Ivins and George Will, a most unlikely pair of bedfellows. I miss Molly Ivins, who died in 2007. She knew how to make smart writing funny, which isn’t easy. What I like about George Will is that, even tho...

Jejak Panda Selamat Datang Lagi Di Blog Ini bandar ceme terpercaya This week I wanted to address the issues I brought up last week, but I can’t ignore this morning’s lead editorial in the Willimantic Chronicle : “Some teachers deserve to go.” (I only momentarily pause to point out that the editorial wasn’t written by anyone on the Chronicle ’s editorial staff, but was taken from a wire service). Anyway, the argument I keep encountering regarding evaluation of teachers and merit pay rests upon the assumption that the teachers don’t work hard enough. The Chronicle editorial criticizes “bad teachers who wear tenure like a badge of honor.” Last week Rick Green at The Hartford Courant responded to a Vanderbilt University study that demonstrated conclusively that merit pay has no measurable benefit on student performance on standardized tests. Green dismissed the results of the study with a single stroke, saying that we need to look “deeper” at the study to draw ...