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...forum marked the release of the book, A Nation Reformed?, a 20-year update of the 1983 report, “A Nation at Risk,” which proclaimed a dire need for rigorous educational reform...
Twenty years after the publication of a groundbreaking report that sparked national education reform, education experts said the U.S. school system has still not adequately improved public education standards last night in a panel at the Askwith Forum at the Graduate School of Education...
Bonifaz also founded and works with the National Voting Rights Institute, which seeks to accomplish campaign finance reform by often filing suit on the grounds that campaign donations directly interfere with people’s voting rights...
Neglect, it turned out, had a price, a terrible price. After World War II, America pressed for democratic reform in Germany and Japan and throughout Western Europe and Asia. It succeeded. Democracy put down roots. Yet two regions remained exempt from this democratizing impulse: Africa, because of its chaos and lack of strategic assets; and the Middle East, because of its oil and apparent benignity...
...A.U.C., an umbrella group of vicious right-wing paramilitary armies, and a smaller leftist group known as the E.L.N.). Last week, Uribe convinced the U.N. Security Council to label them as such; and the usually timid Organization of American States pledged to help weaken the FARC, whose land-reform ideology has been poisoned by criminal enterprise. FARC rakes in an estimated $1 billion a year, largely by protecting cocaine traffic. Uribe gained an important victory when the E.U. promised to take "more decisive steps" to combat Colombia's "plague." His government is currently trying Niall Connolly, Martin McCauley and James...