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PLAN: Provide vouchers. Continue to support the Department of Education. Allow states to develop their own standards and tests. Ensure literacy of every child by the third grade. Promote enforceable standards at the local level. Provide choice of schools to parents and children and publish school report cards on the Internet...
...magazine Diversity and Distinction received $500 to publish an issue devoted to women. Latinas Unidas also received $500 to organize a conference entitled "Latin@Crossroads...
...students learn to do well on the exams [EDUCATION, Sept. 11]. Your story included part of a quote from me about my reaction to the TAAS: "Your heart starts pounding, and you think, 'I'm going to go blank.'" But I was disappointed that you didn't publish some other things I told your reporter. I also said, "But then you see the questions, and you think, 'Oh, I know this stuff.'" The story made it sound like I was scared, and I was not. SARAH TELANEUS, age 11 Denton, Texas...
...What's interesting is that being on the Lampoon [a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to be occassionally publish a so-called humor magazine], all the seniors go to L.A. or New York and go get writing jobs. And when you're surrounded by that, it's a different atmosphere. You think, "Oh, these guys do survive. They're still living, even though they're not I-banking...
...Norton, which will publish Tierney's book in mid-November, sent galleys to Turner and Sponsel, and when their memorandum began zipping around the Internet, a vituperative debate exploded. Last week the story broke in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Turner and Sponsel not only found Tierney's research credible but warned that "the impending scandal...in its scale, ramifications, and sheer criminality and corruption is unparalleled in the history of anthropology." In a controversial extrapolation, they suggested a motive for spreading the measles epidemic: if deliberately ignited, it may have been to prove Neel's "fascistic eugenics" theories--that...