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...gross domestic product in the world's most populous country rose 6.1% after a 6.8% expansion in the fourth quarter...
...states made their job easier by setting their bar lower. This race to the bottom resulted in a Lake Wobegon world where every state declared that its kids were better than average. Take the amazing case of Mississippi. According to the standards it set for itself, 89% of its fourth-graders were proficient or better in reading, making them the best in the nation. Yet according to the random sampling done every few years by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test, a mere 18% of the state's fourth-graders were proficient, making them the worst...
...best standards are those that are clear and very specific. For fourth-grade reading, an example would be demonstrating the ability to distinguish between cause and effect and between fact and opinion in a selected text. For fourth-grade math, examples would include demonstrating the ability to calculate perimeters and volumes, multiply whole numbers, represent data on a graph, estimate computations and relate fractions to decimals. Specific common standards would allow textbook and curriculum developers to spend their research dollars achieving clear goals rather than producing various versions for different states. Just because the standards are national does not mean...
...host of the Emmy-nominated talk show Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, Kathy Lee Gifford spent 15 years entertaining American viewers alongside Regis Philbin. After an eight-year hiatus from television, she's back on the air, holding down the fourth hour of NBC's Today show with co-host Hoda Kotb. She also produces musicals, writes screenplays and has just released a new memoir, Just When I Thought I'd Dropped My Last Egg. Gifford talked to TIME about her new book, her life in the spotlight and why she doesn't lie about her age. (Read "Should...
...That's far less than the $7 billion stock-market valuation Satyam, India's fourth-largest I.T. company, once enjoyed before the scandal. In January, Satyam founder and chairman B. Ramalinga Raju confessed that accounts at had been fudged for years and that assets and profits to the tune of $1.6 billion did not exist. The government subsequently stepped in, appointing a board of directors to try to stabilize Satyam until a buyer could be found...