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Usha Nellore
Usha Nellore: Money can’t buy math performance
- When Andres Alonso, CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools, in January announced the school system would give students up to $110 each to boost their test scores, a lot of Baltimoreans went nuts. Those traditionalists said this was an absolutely wrong message to send to students. They condemned monetary incentives as corrupting influences on students, wanting them to be like the Socratic scholars of ancient Greece, seeking knowledge purely for knowledge’s sake.
Usha Nellore : What’s in a political name?
- A new America is emerging before our eyes. One where, as Examiner Columnist Antero Pietila joyously noted, “a Muslim cattle herder’s grandson, Barack Hussein Obama, may become president and Louisiana’s first non-white governor, Piyush Subhaschandra Amrit Bobby Jindal, who was a Hindu before he converted to Catholicism, is being considered as a vice presidential possibility by John McCain.”
Usha Nellore: What woman and when?
- We all know the negatives of Hillary Clinton. According to some like Dick Morris, they are too numerous and painful to count: She is hard as nails; cold and distant; ruthless and calculating — staying with her philandering husband only to use him as a ladder into the White House; an expert at weaving tall tales like the one where she intrepidly dodged bullets in Bosnia-Herzegovina; polarizing; absent the likability and folksiness of her husband; interminably boring; and with her “ready on day one” incantation, an insufferable headache.
Usha Nellore : One terrible child can hold a village hostage
- W ith student violence escalating in Baltimore public schools, adults seem stumped as to how to end this horror. Examiner photographer Arianne Starnes was assaulted by a male student when on assignment at Reginald F. Lewis High School in Baltimore. This was the same school where teacher Jolita Berry was brutally attacked by a female student last month. That incident created a national furor because it revealed the ugly mob mentality of the onlooking students, one of whom captured the incident on a cell phone and posted the video online.
Usha Nellore : Just how liberating is black liberation theology for blacks?
- The Rev. Jeremiah Wright is a wonderful performer, fully aware of his mesmerizing power. A charismatic man, he used the pulpit of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago to exhort, elevate, embarrass and denigrate his congregation and his country. He calls his style neither superior nor inferior to other methods of preaching, merely different.
Usha Nellore: On tainted milk
- Harford County officials finally picked up their swords to defend themselves against a stream of invective aimed at their home turf. The tipping point was an e-mail sent by the American Federation of Government Employees to defense employees in Monmouth, N.J., claiming Maryland is notorious for high taxes, the Ku Klux Klan and contaminated milk.