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This issue also features Walter Isaacson's powerful essay making the case for why the U.S. education system needs national standards. Isaacson, a former managing editor of TIME who runs the Aspen Institute and is the board chair of Teach for America, argues that on the grounds of fairness and competitiveness, it's high time for national standards in American schools in English and mathematics. It's a compelling argument, and to accompany the story, I wanted to talk to the man who might actually help implement national standards, Education Secretary Arne Duncan. Duncan, a former CEO of Chicago...
...There are still students involved in ROTC but they must go to MIT,” said Mark A. Isaacson ’11, a vice president of the Harvard Republican Club. “It is not that they now want classes offered but that Harvard officially recognize and help with the cross-registration program...
...drug trade nor the violence it brings - and may in fact trigger a surge in bloodshed. "When a capo comes down there is a fight to substitute him," says Francisco Thoumi, an expert and author of several books on the political economy of the drug trade. Says Adam Isaacson, a Colombia analyst at the Washington-based Center for International Policy: "Don Mario had important control over cocaine production and drug trafficking routes, and now they're all up for grabs." (See pictures from the narco underworld in Medellin and beyond...
...government dispatching some 500 soldiers and 6,800 police to poor neighborhoods in the city. But major crackdowns do not seem to hamper the drug trade. In the last few years, several high-profile drug lords have been arrested and extradited to the United States. However, Isaacson notes, "the cocaine continues to flow...
...Isaacson, a former managing editor of TIME, is president and CEO of the Aspen Institute and the author of, most recently, Einstein: His Life and Universe...