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...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...
...policy at the Friends of the World Food Program, a United Nations humanitarian organization that combats hunger, praised the students in the audience for demonstrating their interest in global health. Leach commended the strides the United States has made in assisting impoverished nations, but warned that “progress is being threatened” by a lack of communication in Congress. Robert Paarlberg, a political science professor at Wellesley and an associate at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, drew a distinction between the emergency aid that the United States effectively distributes on a periodic basis...
...Muslims, fear that such a stance will not go down well with the Indian electorate. Modi may be trying to make himself more acceptable to a wider audience. Since the Gujarat elections of 2007, Modi has been trying to paint himself as the able administrator who has brought progress and prosperity to Gujarat. The Supreme Court ruling will make it harder to keep that message pristine...