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...national level, No Child Left Behind--the metric-heavy school reform that President Bush would like to expand in public high schools--was designed to make schools accountable for their dropout rates. But it hasn't been carried out very seriously. The Education Trust, an advocacy group for low-income and minority students, issued a scathing report in 2005 about how the Federal Government stood by while states handed in patently misleading graduation numbers: last year three states didn't submit any, and for many states, the figures were clearly inflated...
...claim, Walt and Mearsheimer quote Israel’s founding prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, as having said at a meeting in the late 1930s: “After the formation of a large army in the wake of the establishment of the state, we shall abolish partition and expand to the whole of Palestine...
...President Hugo Chavez has spent much of his recent time and energy trying to export his Bolivarian leftist revolution across Central and South America, doling out windfall oil profits to his allies and exchanging strong rhetoric with the United States. At home, he has done his best to expand his revolution, most recently seizing oil fields from two multinational companies that refused to sign joint ventures with his government. But judging by the protests in Caracas this week against rampant crime and police corruption, Chavez may want to plow more money into basic necessities like law and order...
...affected, it’s different than if he was standing up straight. [Dancing] is a team sport and you’re forced to learn incredible skills. I felt it was a commercial movie, but it had a message. The more programs [like Pierre’s] could expand, the better for everyone...
...Thursday contained provisions that give the federal government excessive influence over colleges. But supporters of the act said that it will rein in tuition hikes and make college more affordable. The legislation would increase the maximum individual Pell Grant by $200 to $6,000. It also looks to expand federal oversight of colleges by monitoring tuition hikes. Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon, R-Calif., the chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, said in a statement that “consistent increases in college costs have made it clear that colleges...