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...winter approaches, the probe that fired the imagination of the American public is shivering in sub-zero Martian temperatures, cut off from home, unable to send home pictures or receive the orders programmers are sending it to hit its restart button. The plucky Sojourner rover is left to run aimless circles round the craft ? and now NASA is about to give up on both of them...
Raising children isn't easy either, as we all know. The task becomes even more difficult when we don't give them the education they deserve. We send them off to school every day, hoping for the best but often settling for less. Teachers are usually overworked and underpaid. Public schools are often overcrowded and underfunded. We begrudge tax hikes for schooling, then bemoan low test scores...
Clinton may get the national standards he wants without even trying. Patty Sullivan, director of education legislation at the National Governors' Association, reports, "Every state that begins working on standards calls and says, 'Which are the states with the best standards? Can you send a copy to us?'" The end result, Sullivan predicts, will be that "you'll find they aren't that different" from state to state. When all 49 of these states are finished developing their standards, the country may end up eating its cake and having it too: de facto national standards created by the individual states...
Privately funded vouchers don't require the approval of politicians. But Republicans are thinking hard about making education an attack point for the '98 congressional election and featuring taxpayer-funded vouchers as a centerpiece of their proposals. Conservatives want them for people of any income who would send their children to private schools. As it happens, that idea gets a lukewarm reaction from a lot of white suburbanites, the same people most likely to vote Republican. They tend to like their public schools, which are generally well funded and supported by lots of parental involvement. A plan to use their...
...received phonics tutoring in addition to her classroom instruction. But the school district had adopted the "whole language" approach to teaching reading. "There was a conflict between the special-ed teacher and the whole-language teacher," Muskie says. "The whole-language teacher was saying I can't send her to that program." The tutoring ended, but Olivia's reading didn't improve, and in second grade she became scared and frustrated. "She was literally pulling her hair out," Muskie remembers, her voice cracking. A year later, Muskie found a reading clinic that used a phonics method. "It took them...