Best Thinking for Feb. 23, 2012

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  Pros and Cons of Teacher Evaluations

  Teacher evaluations have often been a way to measure educators' performances and effectiveness. Evaluation systems vary by state, but tend to have similarities. Student performance or classroom observations are often used as measurement tools. For example, the Washington, D.C. evaluation...

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  The World's Second Successful Disease Eradication

  For the second time in history, a disease has successfully been eradicated from the face of the planet. Rinderpest, a cattle disease, proved to be very difficult to remove.   Apart from rinderpest, smallpox was the first disease to have been wiped off the planet completely. The World...

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  Which Countries Exile Journalists the Most?

  The exiling of journalists has become a political and social trend witnessed across nations around the world as more and more journalists are condemned by their nation's governments. Journalists who participate in reform movements, whether through their publications or in actual...

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  Nancy Grace: Victim or Vicious?

  Throughout the three years of media coverage of the Casey Anthony case, the nation's public became quite familiar with Nancy Grace, a justice-seeking prosecutor publicly convicting whoever she believed to be guilty in criminal trials. For years, she has come under fire for the behavior and...

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  Is There a Place For Genetically Modified Animals In Your Future?

  Recently scientists in China developed a GM (Genetically Modified) cow that yields human breast milk. This has put the spotlight an ongoing debate over the appropriate place of GM organisms in society. Several animal species have already been genetically modified, and at least eleven have...

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• Hackers vs. The Law
• Second-Hand Smoke's Effects on Kids
• Seawater as an Energy Source
• The Role of the First Lady
• Who's Responsible for the Health of Children?
• Celebrity Alter Egos
• Child Beauty Pageants as Entertainment
• Raw Milk Safety
• Imposing Limits on Virtual Advertising
• Perjury and the Legal System
• Is No Child Left Behind a Failure?
• The Debate on Public Breastfeeding
• Cruise Ship Safety
• The Ethics of Celebrity Endorsements
• Dirty Hospitals, Dangerous Infections