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Already 18 states have high school exit tests. National tests, endorsed by Bill Clinton and George Bush before him, will begin in 1999 with fourth-grade reading and eighth-grade math. The tests are supposed to serve only as a benchmark to assess educational progress, but they could one day lead to nationwide graduation standards. Now Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson and IBM chairman Louis Gerstner Jr., co-chairs of last year's Education Summit, are adding to the pressure, enlisting companies to pledge that they will look at young applicants' academic records, including exit-test scores, rather than rely only...
...descendants of slaves, but a CBS News poll released Sunday indicated that a government apology may not be enough to make a sizable statement. Fifty-eight percent of Americans believe racial problems are beyond the President's control, up from 46 percent four years ago. But considering that President Bush supported paying reparations to the Japanese-Americans who were interned during World War II, and Clinton apologized to the hundreds of black men in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, his reluctance to go the extra mile for the millions of blacks cheated by the legacy of slavery undercuts any gestures...
Haney, an environmental entrepreneur since his college days, when he launched a company to break down air pollutants, first went looking for government work in the last weeks of the Bush Administration. His technology, which neutralizes toxic detritus in a vat of iron heated to 3,000[degrees] F, seemed like a promising solution for the Energy Department's nuclear mess. So Molten Metal was chosen as one of 18 firms to obtain research grants. But even then there were some skeptical voices: Energy Department consultants warned in 1992 that Haney's process offered "no significant advantage" to "justify...
Although Xers tend to be more liberal and Democratic than the general population--53% voted for President Clinton, vs. 34% for Bob Dole--12 years of growing up under Reagan and Bush imbued them with a distrust of government. "The do-it-yourself, no-one-is-going-to-look-out-for-me-but-me spirit among Xers is a product of coming of age when that was the message coming from the Administration," says Mia von Sadovsky, 29, an ad-agency researcher. "We have hard-wired into us a different approach to getting things done." A survey by Third Millennium...
...really ironic that this was the school that they suggested I come to. [The Bush Foundation officials] didn't know that I had a daughter here," she adds...