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Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings tells TIME that much is being done to get better data on dropouts. She points to the National Governors Association resolution last year to set, for the first time, a common definition of a dropout that all states will use to report graduation rates to the Federal Government. But it's a nonbinding compact. And critics say the government is trying to slash funding for important support programs, including the Carl Perkins Act, which has funded vocational education across the country since 1984. Spellings says President Bush has proposed converting Perkins and other support programs...
...first collegiate goal in the second half. Senior Bridget Driscoll took the assist on Alverson’s goal, her eighth this season. “It was a tough game all around, but the highlight was definitely the freshmen stepping up and taking control,” junior Margaret Yellott said. “They play a huge part on this team.” Leading Penn’s all-star contingent was senior Emily Cochran with three goals and a pair of assists. Sophomore Allison Ambrozy also got three goals past the net with the remaining...
...stage will be just about the only place where Margaret D. Maloney ’06 won’t play a leading role in the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players’ production of “The Yeomen of the Guard.” The Dunster House resident has been instrumental to the show at every point in its production, from being one of the people who chose “Yeomen” as this season’s Gilbert and Sullivan operetta right down to designing its publicity posters. Maloney left Decatur...
...with one goal apiece. Martin, who led the team with three goals scored, would go on to play a crucial part in the Crimson comeback. After another BU goal, Martin slipped a goal pass Golden to tie the score at five all. Martin also provided an assist to junior Margaret Yellott 17:41 into the first half. Perched about fifteen yards out from the goal, Martin threw a quick inlet pass to Yellott. Using a swift spin move, she shook her defender and left an easy shot on goal. In the next possession, Martin took a chance at the goal...
...addition to many influential Texas Republican backers, Wallace has personal connections to one of the icons of the conservative movement, Baroness Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister. He did post-graduate work at the University of Reading in England and was a founding treasurer and director of the Margaret Thatcher Foundation. In Dallas, he served as CEO of The Grantham Company, the investment firm founded by Thatcher's son Mark and named for the legendary prime minister's home district of Grantham in London...