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Bernanke has shown that he has evolved from being an academic to being a man of action, but he has not made any progress as an economist. He takes a position of optimism balanced by caution in almost all of his public statements, which makes them nearly useless...
...recovery cannot make much progress or be sustained while the number of people without jobs is at historic highs. Mr. Bernanke fails to acknowledge this. He used inventory and housing numbers to make his case that the economy is beginning to improve. That is hardly enough to prove the point...
...want to cancel altogether, the standard policies apply - unless you bought the Princess Vacation Protection insurance, which gets you a credit of up to 90% of the fare; without insurance, you forfeit your fare. To date, no cases of swine flu have been reported aboard cruises in progress, and the cruise lines assure passengers that they will be screening crew and passengers for illness and will isolate anyone who shows flu-like symptoms...
...achievement gap in education between white and minority students has not narrowed significantly since 2004, according to data released earlier this week from a national test of 26,000 students that tracks long-term trends in reading and math proficiency. Results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, which the National Center for Education Statistics has published every four years since the early 1970s, show that while young minorities have made academic gains, concurrent improvements in the performance of white students have kept the achievement gap consistently wide. Among high-school-age students, that gulf translated to a roughly...
...other hand, expenditures per student have tended to be higher, and student-teacher ratios lower, in rural areas compared to cities and suburbs. Like elsewhere in the United States, rural public education is failing its students, but perhaps less so. On the 2005 National Assessment of Educational Progress reading assessment, only a third of 12th-grade public-school students in rural areas scored at or above proficient, consistent with the national average. Rural dropout rates are higher than in the suburbs and lower than in cities.On one hand, the success of public education in any setting is largely the result...