Government schools in India are failing its poorest students. In recent unannounced inspections of state schools in poor urban and rural areas:
Only half of the teachers were doing their jobs, that is, teaching.
The school’s headmaster was present at only 40 percent of the schools.
And when the teachers
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is by far the most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere; however, other gases are more prodigious trappers of heat. It is these other gases that are responsible for rapid global warming in recent decades, says a leading expert, James Hansen.
Hansen, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Companies that supply temporary workers are now competing with their business clients for recruits. That is one consequence of the tightest U.S. labour market in 30 years with unemployment at 4 percent.
The situation is altering the labour-market landscape and changing firms’ personnel policies.
In order to attract recruits, temporary-help
A recent New York Times story related that “leads” of open water in ice fields near the North Pole filled cruise passengers on a Russian icebreaker with a “sense of alarm.” Proponents of the theory of man-made global warming grasped at the story to vindicate their warnings.
But climate experts report
Thomas Edison thought electricity would be generated for consumers via small, local power plants. But the industry took a different tack historically with power stations getting ever bigger and transmission grids ranging every wider.
Now, some experts think that electricity deregulation will finally usher in the era of small
Small schools elementary schools with fewer than 350 students and high schools with fewer than 400 students improve the success of students in urban areas by making the school environment more personal. A Bank Street College study focused on 150 small Chicago public schools founded between 1990 and
Race is a social concept without much basis in biology, say geneticists. Group differences between races are so minuscule as to be relatively unimportant, and have little or no biological meaning.
Scientists estimate that 99.9 percent of the human genome is the same in everyone.
The proportion of a human’s
Much of Al Gore’s acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention in the USA was devoted to the rich versus the poor and the powerful against the powerless. But many academic studies have found that there is enormous mobility among income classes.
For example,
A 1984 University of Michigan study showed that
South Africa’s public education system remains a terrible mess and misguided, gradualist tinkering is not going to work. The Department of Education Working Group appears to have adopted or been given the wrong remit. Nowhere is mentioned the educational service which paymasters (taxpayers) and customers (parents, and their children as
Most historians, and virtually everyone on the political left, views most human interactions as zero-sum (borrowing a term from game theory): one person’s gain is another’s loss.
In fact, the potential for positive-sum interactions (where both people gain) always exists everywhere there are human beings. There are impediments oppressive governments,
