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Faced with that daunting challenge, Bush and the Governors were able to reach an unprecedented agreement to set national performance standards and goals for the schools and to measure each state's progress. Only a few years ago, such a step would have provoked loud complaints against federal encroachment on the traditional autonomy of states and local school districts. Now, however, the idea of national standards is supported by solid majorities in opinion polls. "Bold action is what we need," Bush told the Governors. "The American people are ready for radical reforms." Despite the high- flown rhetoric, however, the summit...
...drug czar William Bennett, the former Education Secretary, who bluntly described much of what he heard at the summit as "pap -- and stuff that rhymes with pap." Bennett noted, for example, that "everybody seems to like national performance goals, but the question is . . . What happens if we don't reach them?" He suggested that "if we're not able in five years to get our schools back up to where they were in 1963, after spending 40% more, then maybe we should just . . . give people their money back and let them educate themselves or start their own schools. That would...
Unfortunately, eight of the 16 team members returned to Cambridge Saturday evening, leaving Harvard undermanned for Sunday's competition. Even so, the Crimson managed to defeat Vassar, 15-10, to reach the final four...
...place still looms, as it always has. China is the stuff of our earliest memories, the faraway land where children were starving (or so our parents told us when we were young), so we had better finish our dinners. The place we could reach by digging deep in our sandboxes; a measure of size ("I wouldn't do that for all the tea in China"); a country whose mere name conjured mystery and intrigue...
...severe anemia. But the more bitter issue is its cost. A year's supply for a person who takes twelve capsules a day has run upwards of $8,000. For patients who lack full health insurance or other financial resources, the chance to prolong life seems cruelly out of reach...