After years of perennial complaints from the press about the stage - managed nature of party conferences, even the Liberal Democrats have taken bold steps to make interviews with the press even more predictable. (politics.co.uk)
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has released broad principles for renewing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act that seek to address perennial complaints that the law's current version — the No Child Left Behind Act — is inflexible and focuses too narrowly on student test scores to get a picture of a school's achievement. (edweek.org)
Added to these worries are the perennial complaints of bishops, denominational executives and prominent pastors that faculty live in academic ivory towers, preoccupied with guild concerns and insulated or even alienated from church life. (religion-online.org)