It may very well be that you are right for your country; only you do not give any facts from teacher surveys . What I wrote about the situation in educational institutions in the Netherlands and Germany is not general statistics, but tendency ,giving a hint. But in my country - give me...
Two interesting facts about Detroit: 1) With 82% of residents in the city limits black, Detroit is one of the most homogenous urban centers in the USA. Even taking white flight into account, it seems crazy that an American city with more than 500,000 residents (Detroit has around 800,...
That was a long time ago.Now the once loved pattern of the couch upholstery has to fight to show itself from under acres of crocheted doilies and couch covers which have themselves finally come to be more important than the upholstery.And here a table or a chair has been moved to disguise...
If there is one thing about Grand Rapids that you can count on, it's that all the beaches are going to be PACKED on a beautiful sunny day. I was recently in Massachusetts and visited the coastline and, not to knock on their beach, but the salt water was just not for me when we h...
The metasemantic interpretation reverses the order of explanation: an utterance has the primary intension it has because it yields the secondary intensions it yields relative to different possible worlds considered as actual. In these possible worlds, the semantic facts can be different: the meta...
Yoga with Rodney Yee in the room Strolled along Canadian side of Niagara Falls; water is surprisingly blue-green Visited Jamestown, NY, birthplace of America’s favorite redhead, Lucille Ball. Fun Facts: Lucille (as they refer to her in Jamestown) went to vaudeville shows with her grandfather...
But every time I read or see another version of the story, I can’t help but be reminded about how it is fiction, and just how particularly the “facts” have been plotted, amplified, muted, reconfigured, and calibrated to achieve very pointed emotional effects. And these fictions are ...
This case was submitted to the district court on stipulated facts, which reveal that in exchange for a 25-cent payment, the machines grant the player five simulated poker hand replay credits. The player can wager one to eight replay credits per hand played, and the machines will award replay...
such details remind me that this documentary is about trying to rearrange value systems, and even empathetic “insiders” are not immune to having their beliefs questioned. On the whole, I feel that the narration eschewed dogma, judgment, and sensationalism. Yet, “facts” are ever neutral, and...
The hard facts are sobering: According to a new study, the quality of democracy has deteriorated over the past 20 years in 137 countries that are considered developing or emerging economies. According to the Bertelsmann Foundation’s “Transformation Index,” there are now 63 democracies compared ...