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...School choice is an experiment we cannot afford to pass up," this self-described "cautious optimist" writes. Presumably, Peterson means that given the current state of education in America-public schools are in shambles and we are the worst educated of the industrial nations-it is time to try something...
This concern for the students first is the moral center of Peterson's argument. Put simply, Peterson is saying that students who cannot afford private school deserve an education of private school quality. This is a great thing to say, and it should be said louder, clearer and more frequently...
...public school teachers should have advanced degrees. We might also consider some of the other substantive proposals floating around, such as national exams and standardized curricula. For when all the talk has settled down, and the pundits have gone to bed, these are the experiments that we cannot afford to pass...
Cynthia Bates, from Merrill Lynch's corporate-banking division, echoed Poor's comments, lamenting the company's "technical transgressions" last year. She explained that Merrill Lynch could not afford to wait until November, and therefore had no choice but to leave the on-campus recruiting program...
Hoping to find an AZT regimen they could afford, African researchers sought sponsorship from U.S. health agencies and launched a number of scientific studies in which some mothers were given short treatments with AZT and some, for the purpose of comparison, received a placebo. It is the inclusion of these placebo groups that the critics find objectionable. Giving a sugar pill to an AIDS patient is considered ethically unacceptable in the U.S. To give one to a pregnant African, Dr. Angell writes, shows a "callous disregard of [a patient's] welfare for the sake of research goals...