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Shortcomings in how the Bush administration has administered the program notwithstanding, NCLB has a progressive design. It has its roots in the Clinton administration’s Improving America’s Schools Act of 1994, which aimed to improve local performance through federal oversight and channel funds to schools with underperforming minority students. The NCLB Act the George W. Bush team proposed to Congress in 2001 embodied many of the same principles, but increased autonomy for both states and local districts. And that is why it now fails...
...went missing in May 2005 after a night out on the Caribbean island of Aruba. Acting as the prosecution: Peter de Vries, a Dutch crime journalist, who presented his eagerly awaited take on the case on a Dutch commercial television station. The advocate for the defense: a rival channel, which aired an interview with one of the prime suspects in the case. Left in the dust as hapless bystanders were the official prosecutors in Aruba, who have failed to bring anyone to trial almost three years since Holloway was last seen leaving a nightclub with Joran van der Sloot...
...Today Greensburg is living up to its name. Consultants from the Department of Energy and the National Renewable energy Laboratory are helping residents build new houses that are up to 50% more energy efficient than their old homes. The Discovery Channel has spent months documenting the town's reconstruction for a miniseries on the Greensburg experience that will be produced by Leonardo DiCaprio. In early January, the city council approved a plan that would make all public buildings in Greensburg conform to the Platinum rating of the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Design (LEED) standards - something...
Gates, who is the director of the W.E.B Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research, said he wanted to channel this barbershop atmosphere in “The Root,” an online magazine he launched Monday...
...With numerous music and Hollywood contacts, Ayeroff was able to make voting look hip. By 2001, the organization had registered more than a million young voters. A number of celebrities have appeared in the group's ads, including Justin Timberlake, Madonna and Leonardo DiCaprio. The organization sponsors its own channel on YouTube. The group's name has since become part of the public lexicon. After the Iowa caucus earlier this month, Rolling Stone called the surprisingly young voter turn-out "a Rock the Vote political wet dream...