Word: frameworks
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Similar small-scale revolts have erupted from San Diego to Sonoma Valley, and the state board of education is expected soon to release a new, more traditional math framework for California schools. Meanwhile, McKeown and whole-math detractors like Lynne Cheney, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, darkly warn that President Clinton's voluntary national test for eighth-graders, set for 1999, is being used to promote a whole-math agenda. Says Cheney: "Every single member appointed to the math [exam's] panel is a whole-math advocate." Department of Education officials bristle at the charge, saying...
...White House a few weeks ago. (As a Washington native, I'm entitled to this sort of blatant name-dropping.) The President was announcing his new framework for Internet commerce to a crowd of industry executives and lobbyists in the ornate East Room. As always, he was late. Packing in the maximum number of constituents left only a few square feet for the press pool. As we waited for the President and his entourage to make an entrance, the journalists jostled for a good view of the podium...
...journalists by Washingtonian Magazine--but one couldn't logically make a blanket statement about the whole bureau. Nevertheless, public-relations firms call my Journal voicemail nonstop when I'm covering a story. Three separate CEO's called--on their own initiative--to comment on the Internet commerce framework...
Forget the Republican Revolution. In the nation's notoriously rancorous capital, it's the information revolution that's rallying pols against the taxman. The hot topic these days: how and when to tax commerce on the Internet. Next week the Clinton Administration will unroll its Framework for Global Electronic Commerce, and firms that sell everything from books to cars online are lobbying feverishly...
...clues drifting out of Washington hint that the government will stay the tax hand, at least for now. Clinton's Framework will likely suggest that cyberspace remain "a duty-free zone," and Congress is in the process of serving up the Internet Tax Freedom Act, which would prevent local governments from cashing in until Washington sets some guidelines...