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Op-Ed Contributor - The Misguided Quest for Universal Coverage - NYTimes.com on 2009-04-10
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The Misguided Quest for Universal Coverage
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Reform should simply aim to make health insurance more affordable and portable.
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practical, moral and political terms.
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presumably make that small percentage even smaller.
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specify what constitutes adequate coverage
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costly government subsidies to help people buy them
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more cost-shifting, and no savings.
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cannot be achieved using free-market methods
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It would keep insurance companies in business, but only by converting them into regulated and subsidized public utilities, eliminating most existing insurance plans and expanding the I.R.S. by a quarter.
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we have an obligation to see to it that the poor and the near-poor have access to good health care.
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There is no evidence that a dollar spent on universal coverage will save more lives than a dollar spent on clinics, or reducing medical errors, or nutrition, or fighting poverty, or even improving education.”
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could end up being bad for everyone, including the poor.
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Ramesh Ponnuru is a senior editor at National Review.
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Title page for etd-0701107-065644 on 2009-03-18
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EBSCOhost: ‘I get bored when we don't have the opportunity to say our opinion’: learni... on 2009-03-03
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‘I get bored when we don't have the opportunity to say our opinion’: learning about teaching from students.
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EBSCOhost: A Comparative Analysis of Number Sense Instruction in Reform-Based and Trad... on 2009-03-03
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A Comparative Analysis of Number Sense Instruction in Reform-Based and Traditional Mathematics Textbooks.
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EBSCOhost: Workbooks: The teacher's choice on 2009-03-03
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WORKBOOKS: THE TEACHER'S CHOICE
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EBSCOhost: Learning how to learn: the dynamic assessment of learning power on 2009-03-03
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Learning how to learn: the dynamic assessment of learning power.
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Do Elementary School Students Need Textbooks? on 2009-02-07
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Do Elementary School Students Need Textbooks?
By: Y. Fredua-Kwateng and F.Ahia, (2004-04-03)
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paper accused the government of having a policy to eliminate the use of textbooks
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At the primary four level, the paper alleges that the government intends to eliminate textbooks for environmental studies, religious and moral education, music, dance, and physical education.
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would provide teachers with teaching manuals
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we want to comment on the issue of textbooks in elementary schools in order to help put the issue in a clearer perspective.
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Our comments are purely from our professional perspectives without any political motivations.
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lower elementary school students do not require a textbook in mathematics. Rather, they need mathematics workbooks with exercises and assignments for them to practice any concept they are taught.
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hey need mathematics workbooks with exercises and assignments for them to practice any concept they are taught.
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Even explanations given in a mathematics textbook for a particular algorithm are always inadequate; it hardly explains the underlying mathematical reasoning.
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In primary 1,2,3 4, 5, and 6, contrary to popular perception, students do not really learn mathematics. Instead, they learn numeracy which is about the �meaning
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Students at those levels do not require a textbook in order to understand these number concepts as used in practice. On the contrary, students at that level need mathematics workbooks and the teacher also need mathematics-teaching manuals
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The second reason is that from a psychosocial point of view these subjects are better taught and learned at those levels when they are not academicized.
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Students at that level do not read those textbooks and all that the teachers do is to assign exercises from those textbooks.
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the Chronicle states that without textbooks students would find it more difficult to find help with their homework assignments. This is not true with numeracy at that level.
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If the government were to have a policy to eliminate the use of textbooks for mathematics at primary 1,2,3 and 4, and for dance, music and physical education at the primary four level, we would support it full heartedly on three conditions.
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wider consultation with all stakeholders of the education enterprise must be made
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must have a well-structured program in place to prepare teachers to implement the new policy
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In our opinion, the money saved from printing such unnecessary textbooks for those subjects could be better spent on buying more grade appropriate materials, mathematics and science manipulatives, scientific instruments (microscope, telescope, magnifier, scale, etc.) for those primary levels.
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Should You Use Workbooks or Textbooks when Homeschooling? - Associated Content on 2009-02-07
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There are many great workbooks available for homeschoolers. You have Abeka, Bob Jones University, Everything Learning, McGraw and Hill, and many more.
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Should You Use Workbooks or Textbooks when Homeschooling? - Associated Content on 2009-02-07
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having the
textbooks because I knew I was on State standards
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Well, my kids started complaining about having to write so much. And I kept telling them that that was a part of life. After going through last year I realized they were spending more time writing than actually learning. So this year we have gone to workbooks. We still have
textbooks for history but that is it.
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They can write their answers in the workbooks and don't have to spend all of that time copying stuff from the textbook
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You also save room by having workbooks because you only have one book per subject. Where as when I was using the textbooks, I had the textbook and notebook or binder.
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Can Nurses Care Too Much? - Well Blog - NYTimes.com on 2009-02-06
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This is what it means to be a nurse in oncology, a no-win situation where compassion routinely gets hijacked by grief.
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something just seemed off.
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One of the first days he was in my care, when he still looked healthy and felt pretty robust, he told me a hilarious story, supposedly true, but unprintable in a family newspaper, about infidelity, obesity, and why it’s good to have a cellphone handy if you’re trysting in the backseat of a car.
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I called work on my third day at home to ask about him.
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When I left she said the same thing she had said to me the last night her husband was my patient: “I love you.” He died later that day.
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