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...sold without prescription. While the FDA is not required to follow the panel's advice, it has usually done so. A switch to over-the-counter sales would benefit uninsured buyers--as well as insurers, such as the California managed-care giant WellPoint Health Networks, which sought the reform. But insured consumers would be hurt, since the cost of over-the-counter drugs is not reimbursable...
...most pressing challenges in education: using wisely the freedom now granted to charter schools; educating the children of the poor; consolidating schools in rural areas; making effective use of technology in teaching; and getting parents and communities involved in the education of their kids. While the prospects for meaningful reform at the federal level look slim, schools like those we feature here are quietly constructing solutions on their own. Their stories have much to teach...
Still, the district thought Fox Tech could do better, and unleashed what educators call the "neutron bomb" of school reform: it "disestablished" the school and forced all employees to reapply for their jobs. New principal Joanne Cockrell, an intense former math teacher and basketball coach, rehired a third of the faculty and brought in 70 new teachers. All had to be willing, she says, "to give up their private time." Cockrell instituted a strict dress code and in her first year dragged 250 kids and their parents into truancy court. She also split the school into four specialized programs, each...
...school," says Heather Weiss, director of Harvard's Family Research Project. "If you get parents on board then you've got a better shot." To lure them back, schools are doing everything from sending teachers on house calls to giving parents a larger role in school reform. The moves are backed by new federal legislation that says a school won't get money unless it proves that its parents are getting involved...
...success of all these reforms depends on the willingness of parents and schools to change. That's the mission of a weekly night class called Parent Partners held in Kings Mountain, N.C. At the close of a recent confessional-style session, Pressley Barrino, 38, a lighting technician and father of two, told how he made some mistakes with his first child, who spent time in reform school. He's doing things differently with his 8-year-old daughter Nakia--reading to her at night and helping with homework. He has even taken to dropping by her school during his lunch...