Judge J. Frederick Motz, in a 20-page opinion, said the settlement plan appeared to be insufficiently financed and could well have the anticompetitive effect of unfairly increasing Microsoft's market position in schools, one of Apple Computer's remaining bastions of strength.
Schools must resist the temptation of pushing students towards "soft" subjects merely to improve their own sets of examination results and their positions in school league tables.
They are working in key positions in school districts and charter-school networks, legislating in state capitals, staffing city halls and statehouses for reform-minded mayors and governors, writing papers for policy groups and dispensing grants from billion-dollar philanthropies like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Many have gone on to positions in school administration and leadership in the education reform movement.
Positions in school administration or education consulting become attractive alternatives to the daily grind of grading papers and presiding over detentions.
Bullied adolescents' feelings of being less socially accepted by peers might weaken their ability to fight for their positions in school or in peer groups and therefore make them more prone to becoming easy targets [ 26].
Begin by taking on leadership positions in school, for volunteer organizations, or for any kind of club or organization.
* Give schools flexibility to eliminate required positions in school-to-work and college transition programs in secondary schools.
Most of the staff members whose schools were closed by the Department of Education through no fault of their own have since been hired into full-time positions in schools.
Three people in "leadership positions" in schools where cheating was discovered have lost their licenses permanently, said Kelly Henson, executive secretary of the commission.
