I notice in a lot of these rallies that the signs are in English...obviously because the rallies are staged for consumption by the English-speaking media. I find it interesting, however, that in some of the most poor and wretched places on Earth, so many people can write good, idiomatic English....
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| Posted by RonaldReaganFellow On 09/18/2006 12:22:31 PM CDT · 3 replies · 137+ views The Goldwater Institute ^ | 9-18-2006 | Matthew Ladner NCLB results don't tell us what we need to know Last year over 600 Arizona public schools, almost three times as many as the previous year, failed to meet federal academic requirements under No Child Left Behind. The increase is mostly due to the U.S. Department of Education requiring Arizona to include English language learners in the AIMS test. This illustrates the challenge of attempting to hold schools "accountable" for results from the top down. A tripling of the number of failing schools in a single year reveals the arbitrary nature of NCLB rankings. We cannot, however, place much confidence... |
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