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...more computers than ever ready to be booted up in classrooms across the country, our schools should be turning out thousands of Bill Gates clones. Not so fast. It seems half the screens are dark because the geeks who backed this rush to get computers in schools forgot one key element--training the teachers. Education Week magazine has just completed a comprehensive report on technology in schools that shows teachers don't know what to do with all that RAM. Almost 50% don't use computers at all in teaching, and only 61% percent use the Internet. And the educational...
...13TH MONTH Key supporter: PENNSYLVANIA SENATOR ARLEN SPECTER How it works: By making the fiscal year longer than a calendar year, Congress can spend up to $16 billion this year and not count it until 2001. Small hitch: Kudos for Caesar-style creativity, but what happens next year, when the bills come...
...EMERGENCY! Key supporter: HOUSE SPEAKER DENNIS HASTERT How it works: Call expenditures like the $4.5 billion allocated for the 2000 Census "emergencies," so they don't count under the 1997 spending caps. Small hitch: If the Census--held each decade for 210 years--is an emergency, what's Hurricane Floyd...
...POOR WON'T NOTICE Key supporter: TEXAS REPUBLICAN DICK ARMEY How it works: Cut from welfare and housing block grants, or delay paying poor working families billions in earned-income tax credits until next fiscal year. Small hitch: They'll notice...
...KEY EXCHANGE A small but persuasive study suggests that a novel technique may help multiple sclerosis patients when standard therapies fail. It involves replacing a subject's own blood plasma with an artificial substitute. Symptoms eased or vanished in 42% of those studied. Caveat: it was tried only on patients having an acute flare-up, not those with chronic, progressive...