- BART Protest Snarls Evening Commute – The Bay Citizen
- Demonstrators demand BART disband police force after third fatal shooting in three years
- Atlanta Cheating Scandal: Lessons Learned
- The Atlanta incident has led many education spectators to conclude that an overemphasis on standardized testing and the federal accountability system under No Child Left Behind created an atmosphere in which teachers had to cheat. The state report (pdf) certainly provides ample fodder for this view. It describes dysfunction across the system, with several teachers told either to falsify answers or to face termination.
Atlanta’s troubles demonstrate some of the worst outcomes of a test-based accountability system.
- Debt Ceiling Deadline: Obama Scolds Congress, Again
- “The president is calling the Republicans’ hand on just how serious they are about cutting the deficit,” Flowers said. “If Republicans are serious, then they will negotiate in earnest. If this is a ploy to only move the fence back once again and not be satisfied, then it’s more of the same.”
- The Information Sage | The Washington Monthly – The Magazine – Joshua Yaffa
- As Tufte explains it, basic human cognitive questions are universal, which means that design questions should be universal too.
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