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SPARE A DIME? The U.S. jobless rate is stable at 4.5%, but other signs of woe persist...
...historians and psychologists have lots of theories about how we got here, but some perennial truths persist: every generation thinks the next one is too slack; every parent reinvents the job. Parenthood, like childhood, is a journey of discovery. You set off from your memories of being a kid, all the blessings, all the scars. You overreact, improvise and over time maybe learn what works; with luck you improve. It is characteristic of the baby boomers to imagine themselves the first to take this trip, to pack so many guidebooks to read along the way and to try to minimize...
...local businesses continue to move in, however, and many long-time enterprises persist and even thrive...
...Educational Research Association--the largest national educational research group--specifically warns educators against making high-stakes decisions based on one test. School districts lack the resources of testing companies and can't check up on their work. Yet despite this warning and recent errors, proposals for high stakes testing persist. The plan offered by President George W. Bush would mandate yearly testing of students in grades 3 through 8; while such testing would be useful for diagnostic purposes, Bush's suggestion to tie federal funding to the test results is deeply troubling-especially considering the problems that the testing industry...
...does say that if the protestors persist in turning the situation into a power struggle in which they have "basically declared war" on the University, the consequences could be grave. In a battle of power, Harvard could kick the students out of Mass. Hall and possibly expel them from the school...