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...most provocative reform ideas came from drug czar William Bennett, the former Education Secretary, who bluntly described much of what he heard at the summit as "pap -- and stuff that rhymes with pap." Bennett noted, for example, that "everybody seems to like national performance goals, but the question is . . . What happens if we don't reach them?" He suggested that "if we're not able in five years to get our schools back up to where they were in 1963, after spending 40% more, then maybe we should just . . . give people their money back and let them educate themselves...
...Drug Policy Adviser William J.]Bennett-Bush plan had tried to tie a lot ofstrings to federal education money," the staffersaid. "And the universities have kind of waged aquiet battle to keep...
...efforts of Bennett and his co-founders Peter Soriano, 47, and Ed Ward, 37, are focused on promoting the idea for use in schools, hotels, office suites and military bases...
More than 88 percent of the first shipment was bought by colleges and their students, Bennett said. And students are forming waiting lists at Brown University in Rhode Island and the University of Southern California...
According to Bennett, however, a separate freezer makes up for that price difference...