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Brother Guy Consolmagno, talking sense as always.
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A good discussion of the issues involved with merit pay, teacher compensation, and teacher's unions, from a teacher and union member.
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I won't believe it until they do the experiment.
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Because we all need more angst about what we eat.
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Why teacher training is like military recruitment
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"Would we as a nation accept a curriculum that offered only those courses that translated directly to current workforce needs and neglected the arts and humanities -- defiantly unaccountable courses of study?" William Durden thinks not, and I wish I shar
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""You can tell a story every day about stocks," he concludes. "That's what the media are all about. They tell a story every day about today's stock returns. It's businessman's pornography.""
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2006 Nobel laureate George Smoot and others endow Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics.
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Incidentally, about that first item from the Catholic World News: Brother Guy says that he doesn't know why this was published now, because this looks like a rehash of an article in "The Scotsman" over a year ago. Which, in turn, was a somewhat garbled account of something that he did say in a more-or-less off-the-cuff way.
Not that he disagrees with the general sentiment of the article, but he says that (a) "in its main message,that the Vatican supports modern astronomy, the story is actually true, but hardly news", and (b) he disclaims the last statement attributed to him in the article, which is kind of insulting to modern-day pagans.