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...those states may be retreating too soon. A couple of new surveys challenge the notion that parents are wholly against standardized tests. The conclusion: Parents want standardized tests. They just don't want them to mean everything to children and their schools. According to one, a poll of 803 parents of public school children in grades K-12 released Thursday by the non-partisan, non-profit group Public Agenda, a full 82% agreed that states have been "careful and reasonable" in implementing new standards. Only 11 percent said their kids are taking too many standardized exams, 12 percent felt these...
...Anyway, I asked if he thought Cathy would come through. "I think so," he said. "Gosh, I hope so." Then I tried my latest notion on him: that I figured this could be the most weighted, freighted - transcendent - race since Jesse Owens won in front of Adolf Hitler in Berlin in 1936: A black man sticking it in the Aryan's eye, and now an Aborigine making Australia contemplate its past and present...
While Hunter pulled out of the Olympics a few weeks before they started, citing injury (or perhaps he knew he'd be caught?), his story only emphasizes the notion that the Olympics are populated with athletes who are all on varying degrees of performance-enhancing medications...
That's changing. The children are grown now, and a number are speaking up, telling stories of pain that didn't go away the moment they turned 18 or even 40. A cluster of new books is fueling a backlash, not against divorce itself but against the notion that kids somehow coast through it. Stephanie Staal's The Love They Lost (Delacorte Press), written by a child of divorce, is part memoir and part generational survey, a melancholy volume about the search for love by kids who remember the loss of love too vividly. The Case for Marriage by Linda...
...changed over the years in a different way. In his early days, he disappointed many admirers by refusing to take an active stance against the Vietnam War for fear of reducing his effectiveness as a consumer advocate. In fact, he was thought of as somewhat apolitical, and the very notion of consumer advocacy was regarded by many on the left (and there were indeed many on the left back then) as an antipolitical elevation of trivial, bourgeois concerns. Seat belts? C'mon, there's a war going...