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After the game, as usual, the focus of Williams’ words was not himself, but rather his teammates...
...main focus of the event will be Faust’s speech, where she is expected to lay out some of her main goals, though she has said she will not present a detailed list of priorities, as Summers...
Each year education policymakers and administrators wait anxiously for the results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), otherwise known as The Nation's Report Card. The anxiety is highest over how American students will perform in reading and math, reported every two years. These subjects are the focus for most of the testing required under the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the controversial legislation currently under review by Congress. Is the enormous attention being paid to reading and math - often to the detriment of other subjects - paying dividends? The NAEP results released this morning provide...
...that panned the series as “young,” “commercial,” “beginner’s guidebook,” with “frivolous, silly” humor. The report, which was based on four San Francisco focus groups, suggested that Let’s Go discontinue its guides and reopen with a different brand name. “It is extremely difficult to change an image of a brand which has lost its stature as a leading brand, especially when the re-positioning is not supported by heavy...
...there would be no guaranteed minimum at all. Guaranteed minimums are useful only for getting states up to speed - or for pork-barrel indulgences. At this point, all states have received enough money to set up a basic emergency infrastructure. So the rational thing to do would be to focus our limited resources on high-density, high-risk locations. But Congress is not rational. The Senate gives disproportionate power to small states, and those states do not want to lose their homeland-security entitlements. So the result is a new, not-so-improved formula: one small step for homeland security...