Learning to read: do schools and literacy groups use the best teaching method?

Article Abstract:

A national debate over the best way to teach reading is re-emerging and pitting academic and ideological foes against one another and those who advocate a middle road. The traditional method of teaching children, phonics, has retreated for many years in the face of the popular whole-language method. Many experts link the latter to progressive or liberal sentiment, and the former to conservatism and, now, the Republican party. Foes of phonics say they are too boring and lead to disinterest in reading.

Methods, Reading, Phonetic approach (Reading), Whole language learning, Whole language approach, Individualized reading instruction, Developmental reading

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Whistleblowers: are they heroes or disloyal publicity hounds?

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Wrongdoing in government and business has increasingly been exposed by persons who "blow the whistle" on illegal or improper practices. Sometimes whistleblowers are regarded as heroes, but they are often given poor performance reviews, dismissed, and regarded as traitors. The federal government and many private employers are considering instituting laws and regulations protecting whistleblowers.

Whistle blowing, Whistleblowing

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Fairness in salaries

Article Abstract:

Criticism of rising executive pay packages centers on its apparent absurdity in cases of nonperforming companies. Secondly, stock options as incentive to managers to make decisions with beneficial effects in the long-term are perceived as a possible source of abuse. Finally, two proposed bills by Congress that would regulate executive pay are being hotly contested.

Reports, Compensation and benefits, Cover Story, Chief executive officers, Wages, Wages and salaries, Wage price policy, Wage-price policy

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