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...more and more jobs head overseas, Brock and others on the commission can't stress enough how dire the need is for educational reform. "The nation is running out of time," he says...
...Some reform advocates would like to see the report's testing proposals replace current No Child Left Behind legislation. "It makes accountability much more meaningful by stressing critical thinking and true mastery," says Tracy. (See pictures of eighth-graders being recruited for college basketball...
...Republican Party searches its collective soul following its debilitating loss, much of its message will be shaped by who wins leadership in the House. But will conservatives or moderates or both lead the charge? "No matter who's in leadership we're going to have to become the reform party again," says Paul Ryan, a young conservative from Wisconsin...
...thought. "The Reagan chapter is a finished chapter." To Frum's thinking, the issues that built the Reagan coalition - crime, welfare, taxes and the Cold War - have faded. Better now to draft policies that address the new concerns of the middle class: economic stagnation, environmental protection and health-care reform. "It's pretty hard to go back to the old Republican arguments," says Frank Fahrenkopf Jr., who chaired the Republican Party for most of the 1980s. "The American people are looking for change that works...
...also that they are using better technology to attract money and turn out voters. "After 2006," says South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, "we put the same leadership back in place. It's just insane. In the corporate world, you would not do that." If Republicans claim to be the reform party of small government, Sanford says, they must first stop seeing their appropriators convicted of felonies. "You have a lot of members of Congress who are not upholding what this brand is about." (Read "Congressional Races to Watch...