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...growing pressure from Capitol Hill and allies in Europe and Israel to show results for his engagement strategy, Obama had warned Iran that failure to discuss international concerns over its nuclear program would be met with an escalation of sanctions. U.S. and European diplomats had taken great care to lower expectations for the Geneva meeting - the metric of success, they stressed, would be the tone of the meeting and Tehran's willingness to engage on the issues of most concern to the West...
...Young people in other countries are going to school 25, 30 percent longer than our students here,” Duncan pointed out to the AP. Many studies indicate that it is during this prolonged summer that the gap between the performance of higher- and lower-income students widens most significantly...
...such study, points out that “disadvantaged kids’ test scores improve at pretty comparable rates during the school year...But over the summer they fall behind.” Alexander went on to suggest that the disparity between the kind of environments higher- and lower-income students are exposed to over the summer is primarily responsible for this phenomenon. Higher-income students, he posited, are more likely to be exposed to such enriching experiences as private lessons, computers, newspapers, magazines, libraries, museums, having their parents read to them, and the like. The study indicated that poorer...
...addition to potentially improving student performance, a shorter summer would also help ensure the safety of lower- income students.“Those hours from 3 o’clock to 7 o’clock are times of high anxiety for parents,” said Duncan...
...current health-reform bill was doomed to fail. It was voted down, 15 to 8, with five Democrats - including committee chairman Max Baucus - joining all 10 Republicans on the committee in opposition. Baucus, who agrees with Rockefeller that a public option would save the Federal Government money and lower costs for consumers, nonetheless believes that a bill with such an option will not garner enough support to overcome the threat of a filibuster and make it for a vote on the Senate floor; almost all Republicans and many moderate Democrats believe that such a plan would force private insurance companies...