Methods Quotes
[Over a year ago, the New Haven school system launched a strategic road map that shares some goals and methods with No Child Left Behind. The plan, called] Kids First 2008: Growing from Good to Great, ... a sense of urgency.
- Catherine Sullivan
[One idea he has goes back to curriculum alignment. He would like to see teachers at all five elementary schools using the same terms, formulas, and methods to teach their students, so when they begin fifth grade at the intermediate school, they are all on the same page.] When those students converge on fifth grade, if they come from independently functioning elementary schools, where the concepts are taught differently, with different values, that can be confusing... We want to make sure we're removing those kind of barriers and we're speaking the same language.
- Richard Montgomery
[Judea Pearl says his son was, like him, a secular Jew -- but one who was committed to his Judaism as a way of connecting with other religions and cultures.] We had a meeting of the mind as far as religion... We both regarded religion as a metaphor for what we really believe in. It's a way of communicating with people. At the same time, (Daniel) was very enticed and enjoyed talking in religious vocabulary. He was interested in how people believed what they believed. He did an article about the Muslim calendar -- how it developed, how experts disagreed on when Ramadan comes in. He called me up (from London) and said, 'You're a scientist. You should tell me how to compute celestial motions.' I couldn't help him there. He did the research and came up with the difference between two (clerics') methods of computing.
- Judea Pearl
[Deion Sanders , it's safe to say, won't be coming to the Giants, even though he seems obsessed with them. For the second time this month, Prime Time took shots at Coughlin in an interview yesterday.] It's a situation that's not going to be resolved until someone leaves... Everybody on that team is trying to get out, I think coaches included, because it's old school. I think Coughlin is still stuck in an era, in a generation that he needs to get out of because guys are truly not responding to his methods.
- Deion Sanders
[But Rushford is quick to add that methods of execution such as the firing squad and the gallows are not only safe, they're deserved punishments.] If done properly, everything that they've done has been humane... Nobody dies as easily as convicted murders in this country. It's a much quicker, more merciful death than their victims suffered.
- Michael Rushford
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