Some educators in Massachusetts say adopting the proposal will hurt their students because the state standards are even higher.

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The Hobbesian state will always exist in a world of hostile other states, unregulated by some kind of higher law.

即国家总是存在于,一个充满敌意的世界里，而且总是被更高的法则约束着。

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And the truth is that yes, this costs energy, we're going up to a higher energy state.

事实上，它需要消耗能量，我们到了一个更高的能量状态。

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Some California faculty have also protested plans in the state higher education system to use MOOCs to supplement teaching on campus.

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State higher education leaders and individual schools must also do their part.

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Differential tuition is a variant of performance-based funding, a system of allocating state higher education resources based on performance metrics such as degree completion.

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