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...field of official languages are not her concern. Her goal, she said, is to address the 1.8 grade point average of black students in the Oakland school district, which compares with an average 3.0 for white and Asian students. One result: 20 percent of blacks who reach 12th grade in Oakland fail to graduate. While members of the subcommittee commented that teaching ebonics was ?absurd,? the issue they must decide is whether to allow federal money targeted to teaching foreign languages to be used for the controversial program...
...12th of December, the Harvard Objectivist Club held a debate between the esteemed Professor Randall Kennedy of the Harvard Law School and Professor Harry Binswanger of the Objectivist Graduate Center. The course of the debate clearly represented the Objectivist philosophy as morally irrelevant and its adherents, who claim to embrace autonomy, as merely mindless automatons...
Dailey, now in her 12th year as the self-styled "drug czarina" of New Trier, heads the oldest and one of the best-funded student-assistance programs in the state. In 1988 she received an award, signed by William Bennett and presented by Nancy Reagan, honoring New Trier's "excellence in drug-prevention education." "I've devoted a career to this," says Dailey, "but I know that drug use is more prevalent in the freshman class than ever before." Despite all the societal angst generated over drug use during the 1980s, she feels that attitudes since then have softened...
Harvard iced this contest in the 81st minute when Petruccelli calmly lofted a pass into the box for McLaughlin, who netted his Ivy-leading 12th...
...help address a stinging question posed during the 1996 presidential campaign. When Bob Dole belabored Bill Clinton over a rise in youth drug use, the numbers supported him: a University of Michigan study shows that in 1995, 16% of eighth-graders had used marijuana and 2.6% cocaine. Figures for 12th-graders were 35% and 4%; all were significant jumps over 1991 rates (though far below rates in the late 1970s...