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Bush has compared the decision about federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research to a decision to commit troops to battle. This is biology spilled down a slippery slope; the arguments divide and subdivide and seemed to promise only injury to a rookie President not known for taking on the hardest moral and intellectual questions of our time. But far from ducking, week after week White House aides raised the stakes. When they saw him engage the issue so deeply, they realized that stem-cell research was not just a tough call but a fresh chance--an opportunity to reintroduce...
...Georgia a young couple came up to him and pleaded for stem-cell research to continue for another six months so it might save their ailing child. The President, Rove told the Congressmen, considered the consequences of a stem-cell decision "no less important than a decision to commit troops...
...wanted to teach right after college, but I didn?t want to go to education school - too many hours, too much money to commit to a career I wasn?t sure I wanted long-term. So I applied to my high school alma mater, a private day school in New Jersey. During the day of interviews my standard line, so earnest, so arrogant, was, "I want to give something back." It took the head of the upper school to call my bluff: "If you only stay a year or two," he asked, "do you really think you?ll be giving...
...decades: Preschool works. In research reaching back to the 1960s and confirmed again and again in Michigan, Illinois, New York, Connecticut and elsewhere, we've seen overwhelming evidence that students who attended one year of preschool are less likely to be held back a grade, require special education or commit crimes, and more likely to score well on standardized tests, to graduate high school, and even to own their own homes...
...that's a shame. Why, with all the unknowns in education, won't we get behind a proven program like pre-K? Instead of spending hundreds of millions more dollars researching it, let's commit to it, before another generation of four-year-olds misses...