Word: annelies
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RESIGNED. ROD PAIGE, 71, as U.S. Education Secretary; SPENCER ABRAHAM, 52, as Energy Secretary; ANN VENEMAN, 55, as Agriculture Secretary; and COLIN POWELL, 67, as the Bush Administration's long- embattled Secretary of State; in Washington (see page...
...emerged earlier, when Murdoch's board adopted a "poison pill" provision that would make it hugely expensive for Malone to add to his stake. Poison pills don't sit well with shareholder groups. "They generally are adopted by boards unilaterally just when shareholders least like to see them," says Ann Yerger, acting executive director at the Council of Institutional Investors...
...superintendent of schools in Ann Arbor, Mich., George Fornero can tick off the kind of statistics that might cause ambitious parents to consider moving across the country to get their kids into his schools. The class of 2004 in the city's three main high schools racked up a combined average score of 1165 on the SAT, 139 points higher than the national average. Eighty-five percent of their seniors go on to four-year colleges. And last year they had 44 National Merit finalists. But there are other numbers of which Fornero is less proud. The district's African...
...harder to explain the gap in places like Ann Arbor, where so many students come from seemingly similar backgrounds. After studying the difficulties of black students in middle-class Shaker Heights, Ohio, in 1997, John Ogbu, an anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley, posited that academic achievement for those black students was hindered by cultural attitudesmost notably the fear of being labeled as "acting white" if they performed well or studied too much in school. His theories have helped inspire barbed public comments from such prominent African Americans as Bill Cosby, who bemoans negligent parenting, and Barack Obama, Illinois...
Enter Ronald Ferguson, a Harvard Kennedy School of Government professor who canvassed junior high and high schoolers from Ann Arbor and 14 other integrated, middle- and upper-middle-class communities four years ago and developed a more nuanced explanation for the middle-class gap, as well as some specific prescriptions for bridging it. Looking at the affluent districts, Ferguson found that blacks and whites there weren't as homogeneous as they appeared at first glance. For starters, blacks were less affluent. Only 21% of blacks were upper middle class or higher, whereas 73% of whites were. Academically, there were...