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The Leaders We Deserved (and a Few We Didn't): Rethinking the Presidential Rating Game
It’s a perennial pastime to rate U.S. presidents on an all-time ranking: Certain presidents were “Great,” others were “Near-Great,” and so on down to “Failures” and “Unmitigated Disasters ” (OK, we made that last category up.) But as Alvin Felzenberg points out, there are many flaws with these rating systems. Despite reams of new historical information, the rankings never seem to change very much. They all favor a certain kind of president-those who tended to increase executive power. That aside, the idea of rating presidential performance on a simple linear scale is absurd. The Leaders We Deserved (and a Few We Didn’t) breaks presidential performance into easily understandable categories-character, vision, competence, foreign policy, economic policy, human rights, and legacy-and assesses, for each category, the best and worst. The result is a surprisingly fresh look at how the various presidents stack up against each other, with some of the “greats” coming off far worse than their supposedly mediocre colleagues. .
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The Deserved Collapse of Public Schools: How We Have Been Hornswoggled and Bamboozled - Even Flummoxed and Hoodwinked - by Entrenched Educrats, Tyrannical Teacher Unions and Pandering Politicians
Large segments of the American public school system have been failing for decades, and the pace of failure is accelerating - thanks largely to the entrenched education establishment and teacher unions. This book provides a panoramic view of these failures, as well as an analysis of the failed attempts to improve public education. The author brings to bear his extensive experiences within the government school system to expose how public education, for millions of students, has been a failure by every meaningful measure. Achievement, as measured by test scores, has been stagnant for years. The student dropout rate remains shockingly high. Many high school graduates are not prepared either for continuing education or meaningful employment. Hordes of unassimilated immigrants are clogging the education process for many of their classmates. Student misbehavior continues unabated. Millions of students desert the public schools yearly for home-schooling and other more valuable education experiences. All of the politically correct and conventional attempts to save the failing public schools have failed. Dumping more money on problems seems to create more problems. Federal "aid" has been unproductive and inserted the federal government further into public education without any constitutional authority. The constant increases in teacher salaries based on the universal "salary grid" have had no positive impact on student learning. Billions of dollars have been spent on reduction in class size with no benefit to education. The requirements for teacher certification have become more demanding, but with little benefit, if any, on student learning. School districts and schools have grown bigger in a futile attempt to improve education, causing more harm than good. While the public thinks that if a school is "accredited" it must be good, in reality, school accreditation is nothing more than certification of a failed system. After reading this encyclopedia of failed attempts to st.
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What We Deserved: Stories from a New York Life
"I read WHAT WE DESERVED in a couple of sittings; literally, couldn't put it down. This is my last book-jacket endorsement ever, and I'm delighted it's for a work of fiction that's the best I've read in years...touching, moving, wrenching, funny, clever, hilarious, pensive, insightful, and original in structure, pace and format. The book is eminently readable, with prose deceptively simple....Reading this, your heart will break or youll bust your gut laughing. The range is that vast and the book is that good."--Steve Dixon "Steven Schrader's assemblage of a mosaic of his brief memory snapshots adds up to a poignant, powerful, and funny book about growing up in New York City."--Isiah Sheffer, Director, NPR's SELECTED SHORTS.
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You Deserved It
Is Bob Fingerman a cynical misanthrope or a disappointed humanitarian? Dare we suggest maybe both? In You Deserved It, the sensitive creator of the acclaimed graphic novel Beg the Question accesses his darker side, serving up this caustic collection of comical cautionary chronicles. What Beg the Question was to sex and romance, You Deserved It is to wanton violence and social wrongness. From "Otis Goes Hollywood," the epic saga of a homicidally puritanical meat packer with dreams of making it big in Hollywood, to "Missing Pieces," a yarn about the extracurricular activities of paramedics, to "Buying Bologna," about a guy who just really, really loves his luncheon meat, to "Yiffy Situation," a fuzzy fable about fornicating Furries, You Deserved It serves up enough yarns to make one hilariously misanthropic sweater, all in living - and dying - color!.
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History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus 1592
Together with the second report of Faustus, containing his appearances and the deeds of Wagner 1594. The Faust problem was not peculiar to the Christian era. The Jews had their Solomon and the Greeks their Prometheus, but it was only at the end of the Middle Ages, when the old world was in the melting pot, that there arose the most famous of all these legends, the most curious element in which is perhaps the fact that there was at the source of it an actual person..
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Los culpables del descenso.(Federación Mexicana de Fútbol; competencias)(TT: The ones that deserved elimination.)(TA: Mexican Soccer Federation; competitions)(Columna): An article from: Semana
This digital document is an article from Semana, published by Spanish Publications, Inc. on May 13, 1999. The length of the article is 1021 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: Los culpables del descenso.(Federación Mexicana de Fútbol; competencias)(TT: The ones that deserved elimination.)(TA: Mexican Soccer Federation; competitions)(Columna) Author: Tay Polo Publication:Semana (Magazine/Journal) Date: May 13, 1999 Publisher: Spanish Publications, Inc. Volume: 6 Issue: 324 Page: 21 Article Type: Columna Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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