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...Still, among the people who could change the law - lawmakers on Capitol Hill - there remains a rare bipartisan consensus behind it. The House of Representatives last week opened a series of hearings to look into No Child Left Behind. At the start of the hearing, House Education Committee Chairman Howard McKeon, a Republican from California, said "the impact of No Child Left Behind has been dramatic, and a positive step forward for students, teachers, parents, and taxpayers." The committee's top Democrat, George Miller, was scarcely less enthusiastic: "No Child Left Behind is making a difference," he said...
...sharp fall in U.S. growth as consumers face higher mortgage costs. Real estate prices will fall, and access to credit will tighten across the board. This dynamic could become particularly nasty given the record level of household and public-sector debt, and the U.S.'s massive external liabilities. Investor consensus is frequently wrong-footed by the market. In 2001-02, markets were gripped by the fear of deflation. Commodities were going for a fraction of today's prices, but virtually no one was interested. Today, investors are obsessed with inflation, while government and top-tier corporate bonds are shunned. That...
...Iraqis, the main talking point was Maliki's failure to secure all-party consensus on the ministries most crucial to Iraq's security - defence, interior and national security. Maliki has appointed a hitherto unknown Sunni, Salam al-Zaubai, as "interim" defense minister. Kurdish leader Barham Saleh is temporarily in charge of national security. And the Prime Minister, a Shi'ite with no previous administrative experience worth the mention, is keeping the interior portfolio to himself until, he says, a more suitable candidate can be found...
...made only oblique mention of his many clashes with the Faculty. Near the end of his speech, the president alluded to reports that professors had risen up against him largely because of his brusque leadership style: “The greatest faculty is one in which the values of consensus, respect and collegiality are cherished, but also balanced against other values—clear excellence, measurable progress, and the urgent demands of a world whose needs change.”It was also the last Faculty meeting for William C. Kirby as dean of the Faculty, a post which...
...declining enrollment had not been formally addressed on School Committee agendas. “We have nibbled around the causes of this issue a lot,” she said. “We seem to have talked about it a lot but we have never come to a consensus.” However, some committee members questioned the importance of conducting a roundtable discussion with the City Council in conjunction with a previously announced market study. “I don’t know that some of this can’t be accomplished by the market study...