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...much energy and ability, and I hope we can tap a fraction of that to approach these problems. Having taught at the Law School I can say that the diversity and ability of HLS students is almost beyond belief and I know from what I read that the level of creativity from the undergraduates is phenomenal. So if you have a place for people who are interested and bring their creativity to bear, like this new program, it might be that we will have a giant wiki and we will see what comes...
...public school in Berkeley, Calif. that has recently implemented the program and has seen racial disparities in enrollment. “Their IB program has more white and ‘paid-lunch’ kids,” he said. “At the elementary school level it worked pretty well, at the middle school level it’s deteriorating—sound familiar?” The proposal also drew mixed reactions from the parents present at the meeting. Kat Sullivan said she was “concerned” that the School Committee is even...
...have been given. The show these two have together provided for American voters and international spectators has been undeniably entertaining. Politicos everywhere have been gripping the edge of their seats for months as they followed the competition like diehard gamblers at a horse race. Furthermore, on a deeper level, the race has been surprisingly significant in leading America into an engaging political discussion it might not otherwise have...
...shout-out to interest groups as well as to an influential former rival who loves making impassioned statements about poverty. There's no reason to expect this new slot on an org chart to do any more to win the war on poverty than the creation of a cabinet-level drug czar 20 years ago did to win the war on drugs. Hillary suggested it would enhance accountability by making one person responsible for ending poverty: "No more excuses!" But it would actually reduce accountability, encouraging the secretaries of Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Labor, Agriculture...
...anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, Hillary Rodham Clinton made an impassioned statement in a Memphis speech, pledging to create a cabinet-level poverty czar who will be "solely and fully devoted to ending poverty as we know it in America." Soon after, John Edwards made an impassioned statement about her impassioned statement, just as she had hoped: "America's need to address the great moral issue of poverty demands strong action, and a cabinet-level poverty position is exactly that kind of action...