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...conference matches] are invaluable to show us where we need to improve—where we’re good and where we’re weak,” he said. “They’re diagnostics…I’m very grateful we’ve had a long non-conference season. Now that we’re entering a stretch of very important games, we can work on our offense, defense, receiving, and serving...
...Tough luck. The bad guys play by different rules, and you can't do anything about it, so just go lock your doors.' Or we can tell the good guys, 'We will arm you with the same knowledge as the bad guys, because to defeat the hacker you need to be able to think like...
With more than 1 million high school students dropping out every year and the U.S. lagging behind many of its competitors on achievement benchmarks, no one can argue with the need to better prepare students for college and beyond. NCLB, which earned broad bipartisan majorities when the legislation passed in 2002, has drawn praise for shining a light on achievement gaps by forcing the nation's 99,000 public schools to disaggregate student data. But the legislation's emphasis on accountability and standardized testing has had some unintended results. By requiring schools to demonstrate adequate yearly progress - toward a goal...
...both parties brace for the House's deciding vote on health reform, they are framing the issue in starkly different ways. To Democrats, it's one last chance to make the moral argument in favor of reform, political repercussions be damned. "We need courage," said President Obama at a speech in Ohio on Monday. To Republicans, it's all about politics, specifically the possibility that House Democrats will employ a relatively rare procedural maneuver to ram through legislation they can't pass by conventional means, and in the process better position vulnerable members for fall re-election battles. These legislative...
...Detroit were to pitch in a billion dollars over the next decade - which is possible - it wouldn't begin to fill the bucket. But Rapson believes the right private dollars in the right public places can get things rolling. It's a delicate game. The philanthropies, says Rapson, need to show "a sense of long-term politics that understands how incredibly divisive this work can be if it's done without sensitivity and skill...