Tagged: White House

SED Dean on Obama’s ed reform tactics

April 19, 2011 at 4:27 pm

SED Dean Hardin Coleman reacts to President Obama’s plan for turning around underperforming schools, an approach that includes merit pay, easier removal of ineffective teachers and could taxpayers upwards of $77 billion.

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Federal shutdown likely?

April 6, 2011 at 9:09 am

The White House and GOP continue their attempts to avoid a federal government shutdown scheduled for midnight on Friday. Tom Fiedler, Dean of Boston University’s  College of Communication, is a former executive editor of the Miami Herald and an expert American politics. He spoke with NECN and weighed in on who he feels is the […]

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What Obama & Congress should do for nutrition

March 1, 2011 at 10:26 am

Associate Clinical Professor of Nutrition at Sargent College, Joan Salge Blake (@joansagleblake) offers the one thing she thinks should be done by the President for the good of the economy and the country (via myHealthNewsDaily.com) with regard to nutrition: “If I could say one thing, it would be to encourage him to continue establishing the […]

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