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...heart of the protest is one of the most daunting challenges facing American public schools: how to resolve the ever-widening gap in funding - and performance - between poor and wealthy districts. In Illinois, local property tax revenues fund a neighborhood school system, leading to vast differences in the education dollars one district receives compared to another. Chicago each year spends just $10,000 per pupil whereas suburbs like Winnetka can spend as much as $17,000. "Public education is supposed to be the great equalizer," says Arne Duncan, CEO of Chicago's public-school district. "But the fact that...
...high school compared to 100% at Winnetka's New Trier High School. And just half of Chicago students go on to college versus a staggering 98% at New Trier. "If we had a little bit of the resources of the districts five miles from us, we could close the gap that much quicker," says Duncan, who has taken a publicly neutral stance on Meeks' boycotts...
...fighting a cold, all from a few blood and tissue samples. But they still cannot definitively determine a person's age. The existing tests can come close, probably to within two years, but that's the best that current methods can do. And two years is exactly the age gap in question with the Chinese female gymnasts...
...fuse in a chronological order, so scans revealing how far along this process has come could provide more information about age. The skull can also be helpful. Babies are born with an unfused cranium and, as children grow up, a series of sutures come together to seal the gap. In some, however, certain sutures remain open through adulthood, making this an important but hardly conclusive test...
...Howard Dean's anger about the war in Iraq was hitting home with voters. And then, in the general election, Kerry kept repeating the word strength rather than demonstrating it. Clearly, Obama's consultants have given him similar advice, that he was on the short end of a passion gap - that it was time for emo. A day earlier, he had said wage disparities between genders made his "blood boil...