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...down racial lines further perpetuates the sordid history of race in the United States. To say that the achievement gap is a persistent and consistent record of misunderstanding and prejudice is an understatement.Beyond the familiar story of educational inequality in the United States, however, lies an additional, suppressed narrative. Although the media have paid much attention to the problems inherent to American public education since the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002, the public eye has been largely turned on the difficulties and injustices plaguing the country’s underfunded urban school districts. Rural public...
...Yoon said. During his speech, Yoon yielded the floor to Harvard students representing an initiative to bring a temporary storefront library to Chinatown, a neighborhood which has lacked a library since 1956. Weijie Huang ’09, at the Kong to promote the library project, said that although Cambridge residents cannot vote in Boston elections, he thought last night’s event was important because it reached a student population that sends many volunteers to Boston through the Phillips Brooks House Association. Yoon, who moved to Boston in the 1990s, served as housing director for the nonprofit Asian...
Israel's new government is a headache the Obama Administration doesn't need. Compared with Tzipi Livni, the woman he narrowly beat out, and even Ehud Olmert, the man he succeeds, incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuis cool toward a Palestinian state. And although it includes the moderate Labor Party, Netanyahu's ruling coalition teems with right-wing figures like Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, whose call for a loyalty oath directed at Israel's Arab citizens dismays even Israel's staunchest friends...
...However, the result is likely to be the same. Although the European perspective has been instrumental in guiding young democracies out of the grip of authoritarianism and autarchy, this power to transform the fringe is slipping. With the prize of becoming an E.U. member seeming to move further and further out of their reach, the Balkans and Turkey - politically fragile and economically vulnerable - could reverse any reforms they've already undertaken in order to turn themselves into better E.U. candidates...
...Although Koka's wife said she never heard the shot that felled her husband, hundreds of thousands of others across Hungary...