A promising performance-pay program is under attack in the Boston public school system, which is trying out some new and innovative school reforms. The plan was to allow Advanced Placement teachers to receive $100 bonuses for each student who passes an AP exam, and teachers could be rewarded up to $3,000. But the Boston Herald [...]
Archive for November, 2009
24 Nov
The Obamacare Rationing Threat To Your Mammograms
Last week, the United States Preventive Services Task Force issued new guidelines recommending that women in their 40s no longer have annual mammograms and that women ages 50 to 74 have them only every other year, instead of annually. The recommendations were highly controversial, and by week’s end most health insurers and the federal Medicare [...]
24 Nov
Tax Terrorists, Not Americans
As President Obama pondered anew his strategy for winning the war on terror in Afghanistan, the antiwar crowd unleashed an odd new tactic to force a retreat: a tax. Not a new tax on the terrorists which, while obviously uncollectible, would at least be properly targeted. And, thankfully not a new tax on the men [...]
24 Nov
Obama Vows More Jobs
via: thefreemanonline.org “President Obama rebuffed reporters’ attempts to ask about Afghanistan today, focusing instead on what he described as his administration’s biggest challenge: Jobs. ‘I will not rest until businesses are investing again and businesses are hiring again and people have work again,’ Obama said after meeting with his Cabinet.” (USA Today, Tuesday) Jobs programs [...]
24 Nov
Carbon Deal Thought Safe Despite Embarrassing Emails
via: thefreemanonline.org “Revelation of a series of embarrassing e-mails by climate scientists provides fodder for critics, but experts believe the issue will not hurt the U.S. climate bill’s chance for passage or efforts to forge a global climate change deal.” (Reuters, Tuesday) So it was never about science. FEE Timely Classic “Global Warming Hot Problem [...]
24 Nov
Hasan, Not KSM, Is the Real Problem
At what point does speech which advocates violent jihad, murder and mayhem against Americans by Islamists cease being protected under the First Amendment? It is our opinion that jihadist speech, which includes websites and other communications, needs to be evaluated in a historical and doctrinal context. That context is that the “call to jihad,” or [...]
24 Nov
American Presidents Do Not Bow
via: humanevents.com George Washington was 6’4” tall. Not only did he have great height, he was a huge man in general. He had extremely broad shoulders, very wide hips, (most likely the cause for his being the preeminent horseman of his age), and a size 13 boot (though boot size in the 18th century was [...]
