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Study links good teachers to lasting gain
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WASHINGTON (NY Times) — Elementary- and middle-school teachers who help raise their students’ standardized-test scores seem to have a wide-ranging, lasting positive effect on those students’ lives beyond academics, including lower teenage-pregnancy rates and greater college matriculation and adult earnings, according to a new study that tracked 2.5 million students over 20 years. The paper, by Raj Chetty and John N. Friedman of Harvard and Jonah E. Rockoff of Columbia, all economists, examines a larger number of students over a longer period of time with more in-depth data than many earlier studies, allowing for a deeper look at how much the quality of individual teachers matters over the long term. “That test scores help you get more education, and that more education has an earnings effect — that makes sense to a lot of people,” said Robert H. Meyer, director of the Value-Added Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which studies teacher measurement but was not involved in this study. “This study skips the stages, and shows differences in teachers mean differences in earnings.” Many school districts have begun to use value-added metrics to influence decisions on hiring, pay and even firing.
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(NY Times) — Iranian officials have struck a defiant posture in response to a proposed oil embargo by the European Union, calling the intensified efforts to halt Iran’s nuclear program, including new sanctions by United States, tantamount to “an economic war,” and vowing to conduct a new round of military drills near the Strait of Hormuz. The strong words came after a series of escalating military and diplomatic responses by Iran in recent weeks amid growing pres-
sure from Western powers. On Tuesday, Iran warned the United States that it would take action if an American aircraft carrier that left the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz were to return. The United States has said that the threats would not cause it to alter military deployments. The Iranian military, fresh off 10 days of naval exercises near the strait that ended this week, vowed to hold a new round of war games soon. The defense minister, Brig. Ahmad Vahidi, in comments reported by the
semiofficial Fars news agency late Thursday, said the military’s exercises would be “its greatest naval war games” and would occur “in the same region in the near future.” Britain, adding its voice to the chorus of diplomatic responses, cautioned that any attempt by Iran to close the strait would be “illegal and unsuccessful.” “It is in all our interests that the arteries of global trade are kept free, opening and running,” Defense Secretary Philip Hammond, said, according to news reports.
Romney jabs at Obama, Dems see signs of hope as his rivals swing at him in battle for Congress
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Love is a better teacher than duty.” —Albert Einstein
CONWAY, S.C. (NY Times) — Mitt Romney on Friday slammed President Obama for failing the American people and accused him of dragging “the soul of America” toward a “European-style welfare state.” Speaking to a crowd of several hundred people at a peanut warehouse here, Romney did not mention new data showing that the country added 200,000 jobs in December, sending the unemployment rate to its lowest level
WASHINGTON (NY Times) — While most of the political world’s attention has been focused on the presidential primaries, Democrats who took a beating in the midterm elections say they have slowly but steadily gotten back in the game when it comes to the battle for control of Congress. A year of fiscal fights that left the country careening from threatened government shutdown to federal default back to shutdown has hurt every member of Congress, but polls show it has hurt Republicans a bit more. Just before Christmas, House Republicans were forced to make humiliating concessions to Democrats over the extension of a payroll tax holiday and unemployment benefits, dinging the party’s tax-cutting brand. And improving economic signs captured in jobs gains reported on Friday also have Democrats feeling more optimistic.
in three years. The better-thanexpected jobs data was released just moments before Romney took the stage in South Carolina. “We’re taking it back!” Romney said of the White House before returning to New Hampshire for the final weekend before the voting in there. Flanked by Gov. Nikki R. Haley of South Carolina and Senator John McCain of Arizona, who won this state in 2008, Romney continued his criticism of Obama’s leadership.
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