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Opinion
How Common Core Can Help in the Battle of Skills vs. Knowledge
High-stakes testing isn’t the only problem, and it’s time for schools to change their approach.The tests in grade school are not high stakes as far as I can tell.
Knowledge is skill and skill is knowledge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piaget's_theory_of_cognitive_development
Pushing individual development is dangerous.
It interferes with peer group formation.
Important steps get skipped.
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Times Insider
Sept. 13, 2005 | The Hard Road to the Big Easy
The story I want was not in the city.
The decisions appear to have been made in Batonrouge.
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N.Y. / Region
Raid of Rentboy, an Escort Website, Angers Gay Activists
Several activists and sex workers said federal authorities had unfairly targeted the website, whose chief executive and several employees are facing prostitution charges.The name of the site states its business.
The prosecutors will have a tough time with this case.
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Sports
Yani Tseng Leads by One in Alabama
Tseng closed with an eagle and a birdie for an eight-under-par 64 and a one-stroke lead in the Yokohama Tire L.P.G.A. Classic in Prattville.6
Sports
Liberty Clinch a Playoff Berth
Epiphanny Prince scored 22 points, and the Liberty clinched their first playoff berth in three seasons with an 81-68 victory over the Minnesota Lynx at Madison Square Garden.http://www.nytimes.com/pages/sports/ncaabasketball/index.html
Women's College Basketball
No games scheduled for
Aug 29, 2015
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Real Estate
In Flushing: Upscale Condos and Retail
Sales begin soon at a mixed-use complex that will add 600 condos to the neighborhood.It will be a sad day.
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U.S.
Video: Rape Acquittal in Prep School Trial
Owen Labrie, the prep school graduate accused of raping a younger student at St. Paul’s School, was found not guilty on the main sexual assault charge. He was convicted of several lesser charges.Owen Labrie is not "getting away with it".
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U.S.
West Virginia: Boy, 14, Is Arrested After High School Hostage-Taking
A prosecutor said she would pursue charges against a 14-year-old boy who was apprehended in what the authorities say was a hostage-taking on Tuesday at a high school in Philippi.Some people are too stupid to live.
Discover who convinced this boy his problems could be solved with a gun and charge them with reckless endangerment.
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Business Day
Suspect in Insider Trading Case Granted Bail
A federal judge decided that Vitaly Korchevsky was unlikely to flee the country because his family lives here and he is a pastor at his church.He will stand trial.
Beyond that I do not much care.
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Business Day
Labor Board Says Contractors’ Workers Can Bargain With Parent Company
A ruling by the National Labor Relations Board made it substantially easier for unions to bargain for higher wages and benefits.Labor is entitled to fair wages and fair practices.
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Real Estate
Homes for Sale in New York and New Jersey
This week’s properties include a waterfront home in Bayville, N.Y., and a carriage house in Highlands, N.J.Beach front is prohibitive.
Yes, I remember.
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Travel
For Loyal Guests, Hotels Bring Back the House Call
Sending makeup artists, tennis pros and even chefs to the homes of loyal guests for a personal connection.This is not a good thing.
The hotels are trying for brand loyalty.
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World
Bangladesh: 2 Held in Blogger Case
The police have arrested two more people suspected of being members of a banned militant group and thought to have been behind the killing of a secular blogger.Bangladesh may have decided to be secular.
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U.S.
Nebraska: Vote Sought on Death Penalty
An organization campaigning to reinstate Nebraska’s death penalty after lawmakers repealed it in May said Wednesday it has collected more than enough signatures to place the issue before voters in 2016.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Ricketts
There will be no executions soon.
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