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That such small beer can set off a furor proves how ideologically hamstrung our schools debate has become. Still, if Bush's plan is largely symbolic, it's also sensible, offering coherent baby steps to lift the skills of America's neediest kids. Take his plan for Head Start, the popular preschool program that serves 850,000 disadvantaged children. While the 35-year-old program was meant to close the achievement gap between poor and middle-class toddlers, researchers agree it has brought no lasting gains. Most say that's because Head Start has become more of a day-care...
...Never in history have we seen aid to the neediest countries fall to such shameful levels as it has in recent years," she said...
...Harvard, the aid increase is designed to give students more freedom in determining how to spend their time. Now Brown is helping its neediest students afford an education...
...effort to make education more affordable for its neediest students, Brown University announced a $5 million increase in scholarship grants yesterday...
...battle began last April when the federal Department of Health and Human Services proposed a regulation stating in part that decisions about the allocation of organs should "give priority to those whose needs are most urgent." Currently, an organ is offered first to the neediest person in one of 63 organ-procurement areas. If no one in the area qualifies, then it is offered to one of the 11 multistate regions and finally to the rest of the nation...