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Monthly Archives: November 2005
Why school achievement isn’t reaching the poor – The Boston Globe
Why school achievement isn’t reaching the poor – The Boston Globe Other research in places like Dallas and Houston that show how high-poverty students are so much more likely to receive ineffective teachers repeatedly confirm how the nation’s school children … Continue reading
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Some remarks on individualism and collectivism
BBC – Thought for the Day, 29 November 2005 Should the aid workers [recently kidnapped] still have been in Iraq? I was struck yesterday by the different perspective of those commenting on the kidnapping. The spokesman for Care International, another … Continue reading
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Terror’s stealth weapon: women – Los Angeles Times
Terror’s stealth weapon: women – Los Angeles Times The stereotype exploited by terrorists is that women are gentle, submissive and nonviolent. Women evade most terrorist profiles because they are perceived as wives and mothers, victims of war-torn societies, not bombers. … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, Society and politics
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Labor’s Lost Story
A column about labor relations and automotive job losses. Labor’s Lost Story Almost everybody right of center sees the job losses as inevitable, the result of the American auto industry’s failure to meet foreign competition and the “excessively” generous wages, … Continue reading
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Real literacy?
Killing the written word by snippets – Los Angeles Times Students are trading in books for search-and-seizure learning on the Internet, and real literacy is getting lost along the way. … One memorable freshman sagely informed me that people shouldn’t … Continue reading
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There’s no ‘good’ divorce – The Boston Globe
There’s no ‘good’ divorce – The Boston Globe Many experts and parents embrace the idea, confident that it’s not divorce itself that harms children but simply the way that parents divorce. If divorced parents stay involved with their child and … Continue reading
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Managing social processes vs. managing the context of social processes
The Very Foundation of Conservatism – New York Times The Olin Foundation’s leaders understood that success is often unplanned, and so they focused on creating the conditions for success rather than thrusting a set of detailed agendas and goals upon … Continue reading
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Speed of technological progress and social effects
iDNES.cz – Å est Å¡kůdců, kteÅà zaruÄ?enÄ zniÄ?à váš poÄ?ÃtaÄ? Pokud nenastane zvrat v použitých technologiÃch, za 15 let budou procesory a grafické Ä?ipy vyzaÅovat na centimetr Ä?vereÄ?ný stejné teplo jako sluneÄ?nà povrch. Now here’s an interesting throwaway line in an … Continue reading
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Models in professional knowledge
Unexpected countenance of change – The Boston Globe SOMEONE, a psychiatrist, discouragingly once said that people don’t change very much, but the little ways they change, when they do change, are enormous. It seemed a dour but accurate assessment. It … Continue reading
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“Intellectual defense of xenophobia”
www.lidovky.cz – Intelektuálnà obrana xenofobie Podle Huntingtona dezinterpretovali liberálnà multikulturalisté 70. a 80. let povahu Ameriky, když ji lÃÄ?ili jako kulturnÄ otevÅený prostor vymezený pouze univerzálnÃmi zásadami lidských práv a demokracie. Na rozdÃl od identit evropských národů, které jsou uzavÅeným … Continue reading
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