Word: argumentative
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...intellectual curiosity of American children and thus reinforce the global achievement gap, he only gets at a piece of the problem. By downplaying America’s first achievement gap—that between low-income minority students and their middle-class counterparts—Wagner’s argument belies a true representation of the academic challenges facing our country and obscures the actions we should be taking. While it is difficult to disagree with his claim that teaching to standardized tests leaves students ill-prepared for accepting the responsibilities of both work and democracy, Wagner fails to adequately...
...fitfully descending sunlight halfway. With their wheelbarrow rattling along, Ollie and The Stable Boy moved quickly towards the H.M.S. Visconti. The Stable Boy had met the trading vessel’s wizened old Captain in a tavern on Fleet Street the previous week. After a night of drink, argument, and backgammon, The Stable Boy had convinced the Captain to take on two strangers with no papers. The Captain’s asking price had, of course, been outrageous. But now Monsieur Jacques’ money could be put to use.Ollie and The Stable Boy boarded the ship...
...abortions except to save a woman's life, and notes that the Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled that subsequent state laws allowing abortions under other circumstances should not be assumed to overturn the ban. The booklet also notes the Michigan Supreme court has rejected the argument that the state's Equal Protection clause requires public funding for low-income women seeking medical abortions. It concludes that "Michigan's legislature has been and continues to be extremely anti-choice, making the state highly vulnerable to enactment of a new ban." The state entry is consequently written in red to indicate...
...bomb went off, but had decided at the last minute to eat at the prime minister's house. Had he kept to his original dinner plans, he could very well have been killed, pushing Pakistan closer to total and uncontainable chaos. By the way, there is a fairly good argument that car bombs are what keep the world's leaders from getting out and walking around, leaving them physically isolated...
...Paulson, no one has been brave enough to voice it. Yet, in a matter of hours, several prominent thinkers rushed to deem the bailout the abandonment of classical economic theories about free market capitalism, as well as the expiration date of Reaganite de-regulation. The former is a plausible argument, but the latter rather inconsequential given the RTC precedents of the current bailout. More importantly, the plan designed by Bernanke and Paulson socializes the risk of the most toxic real estate assets, which have been polluting Wall Street balance sheets since the advent of the credit crunch over a year...