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...There has been some movement in congress for reform, spurred by the plight of Enron workers who had, on average, 62% of their 401(k) savings tied up in Enron stock. Those savings were largely wiped out because the plan offered little opportunity to diversify. Like many corporate plans, Enron's didn't allow participants to transfer stock that had been given to them as part of a matching contribution until age 50. And Enron officials actively encouraged workers to buy Enron stock. In a memo in August, Lay told employees he'd "never felt better about the prospects...
...little crazy to stand up to the Chinese government, but it's nuts not to." Exiled after 18 brutal years in prison, Wei was still as defiant as he was in 1978, when he decided to publicly avow his conviction that China could never truly modernize without democratic reform...
BOSTON—President Bush gave a speech yesterday at the Boston Latin School touting his newly enacted education reform bill, the “No Child Left Behind Act,” wrapping up the day’s three-state tour that started in Ohio where Bush had signed the bill into...
...Tuesday morning: exhausted and proud. And with good reason: after five months of partisan bickering in Congress, the President realized his number one domestic priority amidst a crowd of onlookers at an Ohio public school. "As of this hour, America's schools will be on a new path of reform and a new path of results," Bush said at Hamilton High School, near Cincinnati. "From this day forward, all students will have a better chance to learn, to excel and to live out their dreams...
...Koretz also points out that states with high-stakes tests often tout huge improvement in scores that in truth are illusory - more often the product of test-specific preparation than genuine learning. Regarding the massive expansion of testing mandated by education reform, Koretz says, "The evidence to date suggests this is not going to work as advertised...