ATLANTA (AP) — A new study shows that giving performance bonuses to teachers does not raise student test scores.
Vanderbilt University researchers found that students in classrooms where teachers received merit pay did not outperform the classes where educators got no bonus.
The report comes as the Obama administration pushes states to adopt merit pay …
Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic are fit and available again to resume their central defensive partnership as Manchester United aims to bounce back from Saturday's loss to Everton with a victory over West Ham on Tuesday.
The Ferdinand-Vidic linkup was one of the strengths behind United's three consecutive league titles. But they have rarely played together this season because of injuries.
With Ferdinand back from a four-game suspension and Vidic finally over a leg injury, manager Alex Ferguson was able to name both in his squad on Monday and, after some poor defending against Everton on Saturday, the duo is expected to start against West Ham at Old …
Bears running back James Allen always has insisted he's betterthan people think. Finally given the chance, he seems to be provingit.
Allen has rushed for 122 yards in a game. He has averaged 78 yardsin the last nine games-a pace for 1,248 yards in a season. He hasaveraged 4.1 yards per carry as the Bears' starting tailback.
But the question remains: Has Allen, 25, changed anybody's mind?Has he been productive enough to erase doubts that he can be a No. 1NFL running back?
"I've made a statement," the 5-10, 215-pound Allen said. "Ifanybody's coming in here to challenge for the running back spot onthe Bears, they're going to have to go through me."
What he …
BAGDHAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say several insurgent attacks around the country have killed seven people and wounded 14.
Police and medical officials said Monday's attacks started when drive-by shooters killed an Iraqi army officer driving his car in eastern Baghdad in the morning hours.
An hour later, attackers gunned down a Kurdish politician as he was leaving his house in …
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are giving back to the country where their 3-year-old daughter Zahara was born.
The couple have donated $2 million to help fight HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in Ethiopia, said the Global Health Committee, which announced the donation by the Jolie-Pitt Foundation.
The organization will use the money to build a center in the capital city of Addis Ababa for children affected by the disease and establish a program to treat tuberculosis in children and adults. The center will be named for Zahara.
The World Health Organization estimates that the African nation has 1.7 million people infected with HIV and 6,000 people infected with …
The past four months have been the busiest in a long time for theplacement cells of the Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics (MAAC),the Aptechpromoted leading provider of high-end 3D animation andvisual effects education. Already, more students have been picked upby the animation industry during the first six months of thefinancial year 2010-11 than in the whole of the previous year. "Juneonwards has been phenomenal. The demand for talent is growing at afast pace," says Ram Warrier, Business Head of MAAC.
But what is contributing to this uptick in demand? The ITindustry lobby NASSCOM expects the animation industry to report acompounded annual growth rate, or CAGR, …
NEW YORK - At least three national fast-food chains have made it harder for New Yorkers to learn the calorie content of their hamburgers, fries and subs. Wendy's, White Castle and Quiznos sandwich shops were among a handful of eateries that yanked nutritional information from some restaurants or their Web sites this week in an attempt to avoid having to post the same info on menus in New York.
The move was a reaction to a new regulation that will make the city the first in the country to require eateries to list calorie counts in the most prominent place possible: on their brightly-lit menu boards, right next to the price.
In an attempt to make the rule apply only to big, …
