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...Experts say that this dwindling supply of primary care doctors, largely due to the traditionally unappealing pay and work hours for those in the field, has exacerbated a crisis in the nation's health care system, which is already dealing with tens of millions of aging baby boomers and uninsured Americans. Increasing the number of primary care doctors and researchers is seen as vital to supporting a reformed national health care system, as well as improving patients' everyday health...
...central to an effective health care system. Where primary care is strong, the data shows that costs are lower, outcomes are better, and there's less disparity of care," said Allan H. Goroll, a professor at MGH and a general internist at Mass. General Hospital, where he initiated the nation's first residency track in primary care internal medicine. He also said that while the financing of health care reform may be controversial, the need to strengthen and reform primary care is well-recognized and enjoys bipartisan support...
...achievement between white and minority students is one of the toughest challenges in education. In its first major report during the Obama Administration, the Department of Education offers one of the most comprehensive looks yet at the achievement gap between white and black pupils, based on the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The NAEP (pronounced nape) is a federal standardized test - known as "the nation's report card" - administered to fourth- and eighth-grade public-school students in reading and math. The state-by-state results show clear evidence of a continued problem: black students trail their white classmates...
...problem: The report is not good news for Wisconsin. Excluding the District of Columbia, the Badger State had the nation's largest achievement gap in three of four areas: fourth- and eighth-grade reading as well as fourth-grade math. As in many Northern and Midwestern states, Wisconsin's white students generally perform well, providing a stark contrast to its underperforming minorities. Conversely, the small achievement gap in places like West Virginia (with a racial divide of just 13 points in fourth-grade reading) can prove a mixed blessing, as it often indicates that white students are missing the mark...
Sotomayor's sincere opposition to judicial lawmaking should reassure conservatives who fear that she might be an empathy-driven activist intent on legislating from the bench and imposing her vision of identity politics on an unwilling nation. But is Sotomayor telling the whole story when she says Supreme Court Justices shouldn't - and don't - make policy? It's too bad that neither Sotomayor nor any of the Senators felt at liberty to say what many scholars and court observers believe to be true: Justices often legislate from the bench, and sometimes that's a good thing...