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Frank assessment of teacher performance not pleasant, but useful
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Mary Sanchez
BC-SANCHEZ-COLUMN:KC (1019 words)
The school doors have barely flung open for the new academic year and already the education profession is caught in a tempest. The Los Angeles Times has published rankings of the effectiveness of 6,000 elementary school teachers in the city's unified school district, based on standardized test scores. "The height of journalistic irresponsibility," thundered the local teachers union in a ...
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Mary Sanchez
BC-SANCHEZ-COLUMN:KC (1019 words)
The school doors have barely flung open for the new academic year and already the education profession is caught in a tempest. The Los Angeles Times has published rankings of the effectiveness of 6,000 elementary school teachers in the city's unified school district, based on standardized test scores. "The height of journalistic irresponsibility," thundered the local teachers union in a ...
Sep/03/2010 03:30 PM
Mexico's narco problems are our problems, and vice versa
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Mary Sanchez
BC-SANCHEZ-COLUMN:KC (1127 words)
Two hundred years ago, Mexico's quest for independence from Spain was marked with a grisly spectacle. After death by firing squad, the head of rebellion leader Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla was hacked from his corpse and displayed for years on the corner of a public building. Spanish colonialists wanted to send a message to any Mexicans who had different ideas about who ought to rule their land. ...
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Mary Sanchez
BC-SANCHEZ-COLUMN:KC (1127 words)
Two hundred years ago, Mexico's quest for independence from Spain was marked with a grisly spectacle. After death by firing squad, the head of rebellion leader Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla was hacked from his corpse and displayed for years on the corner of a public building. Spanish colonialists wanted to send a message to any Mexicans who had different ideas about who ought to rule their land. ...
Aug/29/2010 12:55 PM
With freedom comes the responsibility to think; or, is the great mosque debate making us stupid?
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Mary Sanchez
BC-SANCHEZ-COLUMN:KC (1126 words)
Nearly nine years ago, with the ashes of the World Trade Center barely settled, then-President George Bush proclaimed Islam a religion of peace. And no one complained. No one second-guessed him. Reporters didn't scurry at Bush a week later asking if he "regretted" showing support for the Islamic...
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Mary Sanchez
BC-SANCHEZ-COLUMN:KC (1126 words)
Nearly nine years ago, with the ashes of the World Trade Center barely settled, then-President George Bush proclaimed Islam a religion of peace. And no one complained. No one second-guessed him. Reporters didn't scurry at Bush a week later asking if he "regretted" showing support for the Islamic...
Aug/20/2010 04:03 PM
Don't tread on the 14th Amendment!
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Mary Sanchez
BC-SANCHEZ-COLUMN:KC (1132 words)
Election year scripts are pretty well established in American politics. For Republicans, the script usually involves a polarizing issue, invariably some imagined threat to the nation or its traditional values, around which the party's handmaidens in the conservative media can be counted on to help whip up hysteria. This year they've gone for broke with a proposal to revise the U.S. ...
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Mary Sanchez
BC-SANCHEZ-COLUMN:KC (1132 words)
Election year scripts are pretty well established in American politics. For Republicans, the script usually involves a polarizing issue, invariably some imagined threat to the nation or its traditional values, around which the party's handmaidens in the conservative media can be counted on to help whip up hysteria. This year they've gone for broke with a proposal to revise the U.S. ...
Aug/13/2010 04:50 PM
Let's preserve freedom at Ground Zero
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Mary Sanchez
BC-SANCHEZ-COLUMN:KC (1067 words)
I still search for the Twin Towers in movies. In the late-night reruns shot pre-September 11, 2001. In films that show panoramic stretches of the New York skyline, I look. I suspect I'm like a lot of people in that regard, New Yorkers and people living in virtually every state. We seek remnants of how things were before that awful day. Maybe it's one way of grappling with the jarring fact that ...
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Mary Sanchez
BC-SANCHEZ-COLUMN:KC (1067 words)
I still search for the Twin Towers in movies. In the late-night reruns shot pre-September 11, 2001. In films that show panoramic stretches of the New York skyline, I look. I suspect I'm like a lot of people in that regard, New Yorkers and people living in virtually every state. We seek remnants of how things were before that awful day. Maybe it's one way of grappling with the jarring fact that ...
Aug/09/2010 10:09 AM
Immigration reform requires more than getting tough or feeling good
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Mary Sanchez
BC-SANCHEZ-COLUMN:KC (1070 words)
Fierce partisans on both sides of the immigration debate would do well to take a breather. Some of the harshest measures of Arizona's controversial immigration law have been halted by an injunction. U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton forbade the state from requiring police officers to check the immigration status of those they stop or arrest. Thus begins what promises to be a protracted fight in ...
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Mary Sanchez
BC-SANCHEZ-COLUMN:KC (1070 words)
Fierce partisans on both sides of the immigration debate would do well to take a breather. Some of the harshest measures of Arizona's controversial immigration law have been halted by an injunction. U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton forbade the state from requiring police officers to check the immigration status of those they stop or arrest. Thus begins what promises to be a protracted fight in ...
Aug/02/2010 12:30 PM
A funny thing happened on the way to a post-racial America
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Mary Sanchez
BC-SANCHEZ-COLUMN:KC (1046 words)
Whoever came up with the insipid term "post-racial" ought to be forced to sit down and read aloud the vile commentary that pours into any newsroom after it publishes or airs a story on race. That would quickly cure the urge to insist we've finally reached that harmonious other side of the rainbow. We certainly saw no such evidence in recent days, even in the actions of Barack Obama's White ...
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Mary Sanchez
BC-SANCHEZ-COLUMN:KC (1046 words)
Whoever came up with the insipid term "post-racial" ought to be forced to sit down and read aloud the vile commentary that pours into any newsroom after it publishes or airs a story on race. That would quickly cure the urge to insist we've finally reached that harmonious other side of the rainbow. We certainly saw no such evidence in recent days, even in the actions of Barack Obama's White ...
Jul/23/2010 10:35 AM
Hannah Montana moves on
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Mary Sanchez
BC-SANCHEZ-COLUMN:KC (1108 words)
If there's one thing the moms of America can agree on, it's that Miley Cyrus is trouble. The actress owes her outsized stardom to her role as Hannah Montana, the loveable, squeaky-clean teen beloved of little girls across the land who loyally tune into her show on the Disney Channel. Problem is, Cyrus is 17 and has her sights on taking her stardom to a new plateau, one that seems to include ...
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Mary Sanchez
BC-SANCHEZ-COLUMN:KC (1108 words)
If there's one thing the moms of America can agree on, it's that Miley Cyrus is trouble. The actress owes her outsized stardom to her role as Hannah Montana, the loveable, squeaky-clean teen beloved of little girls across the land who loyally tune into her show on the Disney Channel. Problem is, Cyrus is 17 and has her sights on taking her stardom to a new plateau, one that seems to include ...
Jul/16/2010 01:07 PM
Familial DNA analysis holds promise, and potential hazard, for law enforcement
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Mary Sanchez
BC-SANCHEZ-COLUMN:KC (908 words)
Like father like son? Or perhaps vice versa in the case of the suspected Los Angeles serial killer dubbed the "Grim Sleeper." The recent arrest deserves the nation's rapt attention. But not only for the reasons most are listening: the shocking details of 10, possibly 11, people murdered and the relief an arrest brings for the victims' loved ones. No, the national focus ought to linger because ...
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Mary Sanchez
BC-SANCHEZ-COLUMN:KC (908 words)
Like father like son? Or perhaps vice versa in the case of the suspected Los Angeles serial killer dubbed the "Grim Sleeper." The recent arrest deserves the nation's rapt attention. But not only for the reasons most are listening: the shocking details of 10, possibly 11, people murdered and the relief an arrest brings for the victims' loved ones. No, the national focus ought to linger because ...
Jul/09/2010 11:28 AM
Tell it to us straight
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Mary Sanchez
BC-SANCHEZ-COLUMN:KC (1089 words)
Grade C, Mr. President. That's how I rate your speech on immigration, pitched as a message "to make the clear case for comprehensive immigration reform." Americans don't need to be mollycoddled with phrasings from the Statue of Liberty and references to the U.S. being a land of immigrants. They need to be spoken to honestly. So please, admit the truth. The fact is that immigration reform has ...
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Mary Sanchez
BC-SANCHEZ-COLUMN:KC (1089 words)
Grade C, Mr. President. That's how I rate your speech on immigration, pitched as a message "to make the clear case for comprehensive immigration reform." Americans don't need to be mollycoddled with phrasings from the Statue of Liberty and references to the U.S. being a land of immigrants. They need to be spoken to honestly. So please, admit the truth. The fact is that immigration reform has ...
Jul/02/2010 11:49 AM
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