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...ambition - including her determination to reset national priorities and change a national discourse, roll back the state, reward enterprise and challenge what she believed was a dangerously accommodationist attitude to Soviet power - the Thatcher enterprise has obvious parallels to that of Barack Obama, even if their ideological trajectories differ. So what lessons might the U.S. President draw from one of the most successful politicians of modern times? (See pictures from Obama's first 100 days...
...inequalities and, over time, have contributed largely to the achievement gap the United States struggles to overcome today. Yet less tangible factors also fundamentally determine the trajectory of a child’s education and a school’s ability to provide effective and comprehensive instruction. These components differ significantly in rural and urban environments in both their nature and the unique challenges and opportunities they present: Ignoring these differences results in profound disadvantages for children educated in rural public schools.Under No Child Left Behind’s “highly qualified teacher” provision, a teacher...
...decision to turn down the Laetare Medal, Mary Ann Glendon raised objections to the university’s willingness to honor someone whose “fundamental moral principles” differ from those of the Catholic Church...
...Andersen lays the blame for all our ills on Reaganism, the exuberance of the '80s and the American Dream itself. I beg to differ. The cause for our ills is not the American people and culture that created the greatest nation of all time. It is Washington. The lawmakers who now wag their fingers at the "evil Wall Streeters" were the ones who created the conditions for this crisis. We do not need to become a socialist utopia to dig our way out. We need brash, hardworking, risk-taking, ambitious Americans guided by prudent regulation by their government. Charles...
...performance featuring eight dancers, four of whom live with disabilities. Her creation—which is coming to Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art tonight and tomorrow—is called the GIMP project, and its name perfectly exemplifies her bold and unabashed intention to honor the different ways in which the disabled move. In fact, the project’s website points out certain different meanings for the word “gimp,” including “a ribbon like, braided fabric… fighting spirit; vigor…[and] to turn, vacillate, tremble...