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Experts point to Atlanta; Charlotte, N.C.; and Denver as big-city school districts that have rebounded in the hands of strong managers. Detroit presents a very different situation. The tax base is nearly gone. Poverty and unemployment are far more pervasive than in most other major American cities. Many adults...
"We need to figure out how to do this the right way," says Lewis Mandell, a professor at the University of Washington who after 15 years of studying financial-literacy programs has come to the conclusion that current methods don't work. A growing number of researchers and educators agree...
One promising example of new thinking is found on Chicago's South Side. At the Ariel Community Academy, financial education starts in kindergarten with books like A Chair for My Mother (the moral: if you want to buy something, save money first) and quickly becomes hands-on. Each entering class...
The best thing we can do is increase security and intelligence--but in a way that makes sense. Having to sit for part of a flight will simply mean an adjustment in plans for a terrorist. And if we focus too much on Afghanistan, where our intelligence agencies say there...
Coming off a nail-biting win over St. Francis, the Big Green was looking to avenge a 74-57 drubbing at the hands of the Crimson—which hadn’t played a game since the squads’ last matchup.