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...innovations, Bush has been pushing what he calls "the most profound goal I have set as Governor: teaching every child in Texas to read by the third grade." The initiative includes a back-to-basics reading curriculum, a new set of diagnostic tools to identify problem readers in the earliest grades, programs for teacher training, "school-within-a-school" reading academies and after-school programs. So far, however, it has been underfunded. In 1997 and 1998 it received a total of only $32 million from the state, enough to help just a small fraction of Texas' 1,050 school districts...
Being right--accurate--has been important to Wolfe since his earliest days as a New Journalist, when he wrote feature stories so vividly, employing such a wide array of techniques borrowed from fiction that some readers didn't believe they could be true. Jann Wenner, founder, editor and publisher of Rolling Stone, opened his magazine's pages to early versions of The Right Stuff, Bonfire and A Man in Full, and is a Wolfe friend and fan. "Many years ago, he used to get knocked for making stuff up," Wenner says. "But in my experience with him, which...
...made Linux available for free on the Internet. More important, he released his source code, the instruction set used to create the software, so that fellow programmers could hack, hone and redistribute Linux at will. In doing so he was following a freeware tradition that goes back to the earliest days of computing...
...child-care system, especially since welfare reform, give child-development experts particular cause for worry. Without meaningful intervention before they reach school age, neglected or abused children may struggle with learning for the rest of their lives. "If they're not getting the nurturing they need in the earliest years, their synaptic development shuts down, which in turn shuts down the foundations for learning and being a human being," says Matthew Melmed, executive director of Zero to Three, a nonprofit group focusing on the importance of the first three years of life...
According to the report, the earliest coverage of gays and lesbians was marked with intolerance of homosexuality...