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El aprendizaje en la escuela será menos memorístico El Ministerio de Educación planea un vuelco desde el modelo enciclopédico a otro que enseñe cómo aplicar los conocimientos IGNACIO ZAFRA, Valencia El Ministerio de Educación quiere cambiar profundamente la forma en que se aprende en la escuela. Tras la aprobación de la nueva ley educativa, la ley Celaá, el ministerio ha iniciado la reforma del currículo, una pieza central del sistema de enseñanza
que abarca aquello que los alumnos estudian en la escuela y cómo debe evaluarse. Los dos primeros documentos de ese cambio, que se espera aplicar desde el curso 2022-2023, suponen la sustitución del sistema memorístico exhaustivo por otro en el que los alumnos aprendan a apli-
car los conocimientos, lo que se conoce por modelo competencial, mucho más abierto y que es el defendido por instituciones internacionales como la Unión Europea y la OCDE y el que han implantado en los últimos años Portugal, Finlandia, Quebec, Gales y Escocia. PÁGINA 21
La Ley Electoral madrileña impide ser ministro al presentar la candidatura C. E. CUÉ / J. MARCOS, Madrid El vicepresidente Pablo Iglesias deberá dejar el Gobierno bastante antes del inicio de la campaña para las elecciones de la Comunidad de Madrid, que se celebrarán
La antigua cúpula del PP niega la caja b que confirman otros cargos P. ORDAZ / J. J. GÁLVEZ, Madrid Tres ex secretarios generales del PP, Francisco Álvarez-Cascos, Javier Arenas y Dolores de Cospedal, negaron ayer en el juicio de los papeles de Bárcenas que existiera una caja b en el partido. En la misma sesión, dos exdiputados nacionales que cobraron o manejaron dinero de esa caja b confirmaron los hechos apuntados por el extesorero. PÁGINA 16
La sanidad de EE UU observa errores en los ensayos de AstraZeneca M. A. S.-VALLEJO, Nueva York Los Institutos Nacionales de Salud de EE UU cuestionan los datos empleados en el ensayo clínico de la vacuna de AstraZeneca contra la covid. Un panel independiente señaló que los prometedores resultados del ensayo se basan en informaciones obsoletas y sin referencias a los efectos secundarios. PÁGINA 23
el próximo 4 de mayo. El líder de Podemos no podrá abandonar su cargo cuando había anunciado (el 14 de abril), sino que tendrá que hacerlo antes de que su partido presente la candidatura ante la Junta Electoral Provincial, plazo que se inicia este viernes, 26 de marzo, y acaba el miércoles 31. La Ley Electoral madrileña, en la que hasta ayer el partido de Iglesias no había reparado, considera “inelegibles” a quienes sean miembros del Gobierno central en el momento de presentación de las candidaturas. De esta forma, el Consejo de Ministros del martes 30 será el de la despedida del vicepresidente segundo, y el mismo día o el miércoles se producirá el cambio de carteras, según fuentes gubernamentales. Este hecho impedirá a Iglesias participar desde dentro del Gobierno en la negociación de la ley para limitar el precio de los alquileres, una de las medidas estrella de Unidas Podemos y que ha generado un notable desencuentro entre los dos partidos del Ejecutivo. PÁGINA 15
Desde la izquierda, la alemana Widad y las holandesas Nawal y Hafida, el pasado miércoles en la tienda de la primera en el campo de familiares de combatientes del ISIS en Al Roj, al norte de Siria. / N. S.
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Las yihadistas se quitan el velo NATALIA SANCHA, Al Roj (Siria) Widad no puede evitar menear la cabeza al ritmo del videoclip Con altura, donde cinco bailarinas embutidas en ceñidas ropas se contonean junto a la cantante española Rosalía. Al otro lado de la pantalla, a ras del suelo de una carpa del campo de Al Roj para familias de los yihadistas del Estado Islámico (ISIS, por sus si-
glas en inglés) en el noreste de Siria, seis mujeres occidentales se sientan con las piernas cruzadas alrededor del televisor cuyo mando controla Widad, alemana de 34 años. “El pasado 8 de marzo, Día de la Mujer, decidimos quitarnos el velo”, cuenta esta madre de cuatro niños engendrados con dos maridos yihadistas. PASA A LA PÁGINA 3
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ATLANTA AND BOULDER: 18 DEATHS IN ONE WEEK With Past Failures in Suspect in Colorado Had Military-Style Mind, Biden Seeks Rifle, Police Say New Gun Laws
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Outside the King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colo., mourners left flowers in memory of the 10 people killed there on Monday.
After a Senseless Act, Remembering Full Lives and Futures Lost This article is by Shawn Hubler, Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio, Marie Fazio and Manny Fernandez.
Eric Talley, 51, had already had a career working in the tech industry when he shifted course at age 40 and joined the Boulder Police Department. He was as busy on patrol as he was at home, helping to raise seven children, the youngest of whom was 7 and the oldest 20. A friend recalled Officer Talley’s choice of transportation — a 15-passenger van. He had done such a thorough
job teaching his children first aid that when one of his sons swallowed a quarter, another son sprang into action, using his father-taught resuscitation skills. The police department gave the older son an award for lifesaving just a couple of weeks ago. Officer Talley was on duty on Monday when a barrage of calls came in: Gunfire had erupted at a King Soopers grocery store. He was the first on the scene. “The world lost a great soul,” said the officer’s father, Homer Talley, a retired optics engineer who lives near Abilene, Texas.
“His family was the joy of his life.” Like the people shopping at a Walmart store in El Paso in 2019, like those working in three Atlanta area spas last week, 10 victims in Boulder, Colo., including Officer Talley, were killed by the gunfire of a heavily armed man. They were young and old, single and married, King Soopers customers and King Soopers em-
ployees. The youngest was 20; the oldest 65. Some had spent years working at the grocery. Others had been in the store only a few minutes. All left behind relatives and friends who were struggling to comprehend what had happened and who were more eager to talk about how their relative or friend had lived than how they had died. “I don’t want her name to be another name next to an age on a list,” said Alexis Knutson, 22, a friend of Teri Leiker, 51, a King Soopers employee who she said Continued on Page A23
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WASHINGTON — Faced with the second mass shooting in a week, President Biden and Democrats on Capitol Hill called on Tuesday for fast action to enact stricter gun laws, a plea that was immediately met with a blockade of opposition by Republicans. In brief, somber remarks from the White House, Mr. Biden called on the Senate to pass a ban on assault weapons and to close background check loopholes, saying that doing so would be “common sense steps that will save lives in the future.” His demand for action was the latest in what has become a doleful ritual in Washington: making a renewed call for gun safety legislation after a deadly shooting, this one at a Colorado grocery store where 10 people, including a police officer, were killed on Monday. “This is not and should not be a partisan issue — it is an American issue,” Mr. Biden said. “We have to act.” But while polling regularly shows broad support for tighter gun laws and specific policies like a ban on assault weapons, Republicans in Congress remained all but immovable on the issue, repeating longstanding arguments on Tuesday that gun violence should be addressed through steps like more policing rather than limiting gun rights. “There’s not a big appetite among our members to do things that would appear to be addressing it, but actually don’t do anything to fix the problem,” said Senator John Thune of South Dakota, the No. 2 Senate Republican. President Barack Obama was unable to win passage of tighter gun legislation even after the shootings in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, which left 20 children and six adults dead. Since then, there has been little progress at the federal level, even as the epidemic of gun violence has raged on. On Tuesday, Mr. Biden noted that he had to draft a proclamation to keep the White House flags at half-staff because they had already been lowered to honor eight people killed by a gunman in the Atlanta area less than a week earlier. “Another American city has been scarred by gun violence and the resulting trauma,” the president said. As a senator, Mr. Biden was a prominent supporter of the original assault weapons ban in 1994, which expired a decade later and has never been renewed. Since then, Mr. Biden has been involved in other gun control proposals that have gone nowhere in Congress, and he was described by aides as realistic about the difficulty of passing any meaningful legislation this time around. Continued on Page A21
BOULDER, Colo. — They came to the King Soopers grocery store on a gray Monday afternoon fulfilling life’s little missions: One woman was picking up a prescription. A retiree was fetching an online order for her side gig delivering groceries. A 25-year-old manager was at the front of the store, as always, happy to help. Then, for the second time in a week, another workaday American scene was shattered by a gunman’s deadly rampage — this one more than 1,000 miles from Atlanta, where families of the eight people killed in another shooting spree are still planning funerals. By the time it was over, 10 people were dead, including a Boulder police officer and at least three King Soopers employees. And people across Colorado, a state scarred by the legacy of the 1999 Columbine High School attacks and a barrage of other mass shootings, wondered in grief and fury how it had happened again, in
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A memorial at a police station in Boulder, Colo., on Tuesday. their state, their college town of Boulder, their neighborhood supermarket. “It’s overwhelming,” said Frank DeAngelis, the former principal of Columbine High School, whose phone rings so often after new mass shootings that he has become the state’s grief-counselorin-chief. “Colorado’s been through so much.” Law-enforcement officials said the 21-year-old suspect, Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, had been armed with a handgun and military-style semiautomatic rifle and was wearing an armored vest when he carried out the attacks. In a detailed affidavit, investigators said the gunman began the rampage in the store’s parking lot, then pushed inside. Officer Eric Talley, 51, an 11-year veteran of the Boulder Police Department, was the first officer to reach the scene. Officers who swept into the store soon after found him with a bullet wound to the head and dragged his lifeless body back outside. The authorities identified the nine additional victims as Denny Stong, 20; Neven Stanisic, 23; Rikki Olds, 25; Tralona Bartkowiak, 49; Suzanne Fountain, 59; Teri Leiker, 51; Kevin MaContinued on Page A22
Europe’s Lockdown Rebellions AstraZeneca Is Dealt New Blow; Biden’s Big Infrastructure Push Meet Batons and Pepper Spray Vaccine Results Are Questioned Puts Climate Fight at Forefront By MARK LANDLER and STEPHEN CASTLE
LONDON — In Bristol, an English college town where the pubs are usually packed with students, there were fiery clashes between the police and protesters. In Kassel, a German city known for its ambitious contemporary art festival, the police unleashed pepper spray and water cannons on antilockdown marchers. A year after European leaders ordered people into their homes to curb a deadly pandemic, thousands are pouring into streets and
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squares. Often, they are met by batons and shields, raising questions about the tactics and role of the police in societies where personal liberties have already given way to public health concerns. From Spain and Denmark to Austria and Romania, people are lashing out at the restrictions on their daily lives. With much of EuContinued on Page A6
Only hours after AstraZeneca announced encouraging news about the effectiveness of its Covid-19 vaccine on Monday, a group of medical experts charged with monitoring the company’s clinical trial made a highly unusual accusation: AstraZeneca had essentially cherry-picked data to make its vaccine look better. The accusation, in a two-page letter sent Monday to the com-
pany and federal officials, was a fresh blow to the credibility of a vaccine whose low price and relatively easy storage have made it critical to the global fight against the coronavirus pandemic. The private letter, which was described by people who have read it, castigated AstraZeneca for jeopardizing the integrity of a Continued on Page A8
Paris Loses Beloved Bookstores The Gibert Jeune shop closings are the latest setback to the cultural vibrancy of the Latin Quarter, above. PAGE A16
WASHINGTON — President Biden’s next big thing would fuse the rebuilding of America’s creaky infrastructure with record spending to fight climate change, a combination that, in scale and scope, represents a huge political shift, even for Democrats who have been in the climate trenches for decades. A guiding philosophy of the Biden proposal argues that the future of good jobs is the transition to an economy that no longer
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A new study sheds light on a complex array of neurological issues that people have experienced months after mild bouts with the coronavirus. PAGE A4
In an unusual move, all of the top women’s teams in the N.C.A.A. tournament were scheduled to play on the same day. There were two big reasons. PAGE B9
80,000 to Return to the Office Municipal workers will head back starting May 3, sending a message that New York City is open for business. PAGE A10 BUSINESS B1-7
Tying Clean Energy to Economic Recovery churns out carbon dioxide through the burning of coal, oil and gas. Aides are set to brief Mr. Biden this week on plans to invest $3 trillion to $4 trillion in spending and tax credits on a wide range of efforts meant to bolster the economy. The money is planned to be split between two packages, startContinued on Page A19
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Seventeen scholars gathered on Zoom recently to take a first cut at writing a history of a presidency that one said may have “jumped the shark.” PAGE C1
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U.S. stocks ended lower after the testimony by Powell and Yellen, with the S&P 500, Dow and Nasdaq losing 0.8%, 0.9% and 1.1%, respectively. B11 Robinhood Markets filed paperwork with the SEC for what is sure to be one of the year’s most eagerly awaited initial public offerings. B1 GameStop’s sales fell slightly during its important holiday quarter as coronavirus-related closings weighed on the videogame retailer. B1 Pfizer aims to expand its vaccine business by becoming a leader in the new genebased technology behind its successful Covid-19 shots. B1 Hartford’s board unanimously rejected an unsolicited proposal by Chubb to acquire the Connecticut-based insurer. B1 Amazon.com tapped Adam Selipsky to become the next CEO of its cloudcomputing business. B4 Musk, whose Tesla is on the defensive in China, praised the country’s plans to tackle carbon emissions. B3 An ex-oil trader at Glencore was charged with manipulating fuel-oil prices. B5
World-Wide Biden called for tightening gun laws after a deadly shooting at a supermarket in Colorado, reviving debate on Capitol Hill and increasing pressure on Democrats as they weigh trying to change Senate rules to more easily pass their priorities. A1 Police identified a 21-yearold man from a Denver suburb as the suspect in the killing of 10 people in the Boulder attack. He was charged with 10 counts of murder. A4 AstraZeneca said it would update and reissue efficacy data from human trials of its Covid-19 vaccine after U.S. officials took the rare move of publicly questioning their accuracy. A1 Hospitals are pressing the Biden administration to pay out the remaining relief funds that Congress granted last year to cover financial losses from the pandemic. A7 Netanyahu appeared to hold a slight edge over his rivals in exit polls for Israel’s election, but the projections indicated that there would be no clear winner. A8 North Korea launched several short-range missiles over the weekend, U.S. officials said, marking a show of defiance against Biden and his administration. A9 Senior White House officials are visiting Mexico and Guatemala this week in a bid to curtail a surge of migrants at the U.S. southern border. A3 More packages, higher prices and a longer window to deliver first-class mail underpin the Postal Service’s 10-year overhaul plan. A4 CONTENTS Arts in Review... A13 Business News.. B3,5 Crossword.............. A14 Heard on Street. B12 Markets..................... B11 Opinion.............. A15-17
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IN MEMORY: People gather for a candlelight vigil Tuesday night to honor the 10 victims killed Monday by a gunman at a Boulder, Colo., supermarket. The 21-year-old suspect was charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder. A4
Biden Calls for New Gun Laws As Shootings Rekindle Debate BY KRISTINA PETERSON WASHINGTON—President Biden called for tightening gun laws after a deadly shooting at a supermarket in Colorado, reviving debate on Capitol Hill and increasing pressure on Democrats as they weigh trying to change Senate rules to more easily pass their priorities. Mr. Biden urged Congress to pass legislation approved by the House earlier this month that would among other things
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expand background checks. He also called on Congress to ban assault-style weapons such as the kind used by the Boulder, Colo., suspect, who was identified Tuesday as 21-yearold Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa. The Monday afternoon shooting, in which 10 people died, came less than a week after a gunman opened fire at spas in the Atlanta area, killing eight people. The pair of killings, after a lull in such attacks during the pandemic, swiftly
intensified a long-running debate on Capitol Hill about how to prevent such violence and moving it to the top of the new president’s agenda. “I don’t need to wait another minute, let alone an hour, to take common sense steps that will save lives in the future,” Mr. Biden, a Democrat, said. The White House said he was also contemplating unspecified executive actions. Republicans said many Democratic proposals would do lit-
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tle to address gun violence but would infringe on Second Amendment rights, underlining the starkly different stances of the parties in the face of decades of mass shootings. “Every time there’s a shooting we play this ridiculous theater where this committee gets together and proposes a bunch of laws that would do nothing to stop these murders,” said Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas), a member of the Judiciary ComPlease turn to page A4
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Nigerian Gangs’ Brutal Business: Kidnapping Schoolchildren Criminals earn millions in ransom and further destabilize region BY JOE PARKINSON AND GBENGA AKINGBULE KADUNA, Nigeria—The kidnap for ransom business is booming across northern Nigeria, and schoolchildren are its hottest commodity. Just before midnight on March 11 gunmen barged into a school around 300 yards from a military training college in Kaduna state and seized dozens of students from their dormitories. It took less than 12 hours for the captors to issue a now familiar demand, through a grainy video posted on Facebook. “They want 500 million Naira,” said one of
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the terrified hostages from the Federal College of Forestry, sitting shirtless in a forest clearing, a sum equal to around $1 million. Masked men wielding Kalashnikovs paced among the 39 students—mostly young women—then began to hit them with bullwhips. “Our life is in danger,” a woman screamed. “Just give them what they want.” On March 13, the Nigerian army foiled an attempt to kidnap 300 more students at a boarding school less than 50 miles away. The following day, children were among a group of 11 Please turn to page A10
Intel Corp.’s new chief executive is fast tracking efforts to revive the semiconductor giant with a broad plan that mixes increased outsourcing with a commitment to spend $20 billion on new factories that could help address a global chip shortage. Pat Gelsinger said Tuesday that Intel would rely more heavily on third-party chipmaking partners, including for some of its most cutting-edge processors, starting in 2023. But the new CEO, on the job a little more than a month, said Intel wasn’t abandoning its historic roots of being both a designer and manufacturer of chips and would retain most production in-house. The company, he said, also is renewing efforts to make chips for others and targeting customers such as Apple Inc. and chip rival Qualcomm Inc. To underpin those manufacturing ambitions, Intel plans to build two new chip factories, commonly referred to as fabs— short for fabrication— at existing facilities in Arizona, Mr. Gelsinger said, with production from the $20 billion, multiyear investment due to start there in 2024. Intel Please turn to page A2
U.S. Questions Accuracy of Data for AstraZeneca Vaccine LONDON—AstraZeneca PLC said it would update and reissue later this week efficacy data from human trials of its
Covid-19 vaccine after U.S. officials took the rare move of publicly questioning their accuracy—the latest misstep by the British drug giant as it struggles to get its shot into American arms. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said Tuesday it had been informed by the independent data-monitoring board working with AstraZeneca on the
U.S. trials that the drug company might have used out-ofdate information in its public disclosure of the vaccine’s effectiveness. The day before, AstraZeneca released interim data from a large-scale U.S. trial that it said found its Covid-19 vaccine to be 79% effective in preventing symptomatic disease. The results served as a short-lived vote of confidence in the shot, which has been clouded by uncertainty over previous, confusing efficacy Please turn to page A6 Pfizer to expand vaccine business using mRNA........... B1 Heard on the Street: Data snafu likely to linger............ B12
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Eriq Fields got an email from Hallmark Cards last week that wasn’t heartfelt or funny. The 111-year-old greetingcard company was shutting down its e-card service at the end of April. No more emails with dancing Peanuts characters to celebrate happy occasions from
birthdays to Fridays. No more saxophone-playing Santa. No more animated Maxine, the wisecracking, curmudgeonly senior citizen with her own line of cards. “I was so upset when I saw it,” said Mr. Fields, a 48-yearold global manager for a telecom company who lives in Richardson, Texas. “It threw Please turn to page A10
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