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Only 20 schools are up and running in Orleans Parish, the majority of them charters. By their nature, charters favor spreading decision-making authority away from central boards. That's roughly in accord with the philosophy growing out of an exercise conducted by the city to rethink the school system as it comes back to life. Under the direction of Scott Cowen, president of Tulane University, the BNOB education committee interviewed 20 national experts, examined school programs from New York City to Oakland, Calif., and called in the Rand Corp. for advice...
...otherwise censored material. Using its online filters--the so-called Great Firewall of China--the government also made Google run annoyingly slowly, and sometimes not at all. The new site, Google.cn, is physically based in China and runs speedily and reliably, but its contents are censored by Google to accord with government preferences. (A warning label informs the user of this arrangement.) So basically, China's Web surfers have a choice: they can use slow, relatively uncensored Google.com or speedy, sanitized Google.cn...
...great respect for Lee Kuan Yew's achievements in Singapore's early development [Dec. 12]. It is unfortunate, however, that he sees only "chaos" in the free marketplace of ideas and does not recognize the myriad possibilities of positive creativity. Singaporeans are taught how to think and act in accord with the dictates of the system. Now Singaporeans are being told to be creative. So even the creative spirit is being forced upon society by the system instead of being allowed to happen naturally. I hope the government does not wait too long to loosen up, or it will spell...
...countries are scheduled to attend, not to mention thousands of lobbyists, armies of protesters from around the world, and some 3,500 journalists. What's striking this time is the palpable nervousness in the air. The meeting is billed as critical for wrapping up a new multilateral trade accord, the ninth since 1947. This one is known as the Doha Development Round because it was conceived four years ago in the Qatari capital and is supposed to give a special boost to poor countries. But at a moment of rapid change in the world economy, with China emerging...
...could be killed by the U.S. Congress. Hong Kong, a place that epitomizes the benefits of free trade, provides an opportunity to hammer out some of the disagreements so that a deal can be wrapped up in time. Even if the conference fails to produce the outlines of an accord, as now looks probable, it may not be an outright failure. The big question is whether Lamy manages to persuade the delegates to keep the momentum going or, better still, accelerate it. And the clearest sign that he's succeeding will be if all the ministers pile out of their...