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This win earned the team a bid to the national championship tournament, which will take place from April 9-11 in Des Moines, Iowa.
I grew up in a drought-stricken town in Iowa in the 1930s listening to "Dutch" Reagan the sportscaster on radio station WHO, Des Moines. More than 50 years later, I watched President Reagan with his newfound friend Mikhail Gorbachev, stroll through Red Square talking and laughing with the Moscow...
Like most 13-year-olds, Brian Wennerstrum loves video games and his mom--and isn't all that crazy about school. An eighth-grader at Callanan Middle School in Des Moines, Iowa, he is quiet and well-mannered, a little unfocused at times, and popular with classmates and teachers. He...
Those students receive a double blow from learning-disabilities laws: not only is their learning in mixed classrooms often compromised, but they are also barred from reaping the benefits--small-group instruction, protection from discipline, extra time on standardized tests--afforded the learning-disabled students. That frustrates principals like Mary...
Given the hypercompetitive climate in middle-class schools, it seems unlikely those parents will ever be converted. But average students can still be rescued if policymakers committed to the ideals of public education resist interest-group politics and pressure from powerful parents. Revamping special-education laws, to give school districts...