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...Child Left Behind Act, it is the states that are responsible for education standards and guidelines, and it is the states that, along with municipalities, pay the bulk of the cost of educating our students. Many local officials have innovative ideas to address the achievement gap that is the shame of our nation, but they are stifled by the “testing first” approach mandated by the feds. In addition, researchers across the country have provided extensive data on the benefits of high-quality early childhood education in the struggle to address the achievement...
...their credit, modern Western democracies feel shame in combat more profoundly than other countries. We have done terrible things--in World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam and now, it strongly appears, in Haditha in Iraq. These dark moments--indiscriminately bombarding German civilians in World War II, mowing down Vietnamese peasants at My Lai--do not necessarily diminish the rightness of the cause for which we fight. For Americans, in whom isolationism runs deep, it is perhaps reflexive to feel revulsion and want to withdraw from conflicts and commitments where young Americans can do evil things...
...time.“We can’t help but feel disappointed,” sophomore stroke George Kitovitz said. “Since Harvard had won the last three years, as much as the streak had to finally end, it’s just a shame to be a part of that.”The Crimson managed to keep the race relatively close, preventing the other crews from building an insurmountable advantage.“We haven’t been that fast out of the blocks, [so] we’ve been concentrating on trying...
While the reputation of traditional memoir publishing recovers from the scandal of partly or wholly fabricated tales of self-inflicted horror, two new graphical memoirs put such phony sensationalism to shame. Notably, both are by women, whose childhood stories have become increasingly visible in this medium thanks to the popularity of Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, a two-volume remembrance of growing up in post-revolution Iran. We Are On Our Own by Miriam Katin recalls the author's early childhood living secretly as a Jew in Nazi-occupied Hungary. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, by Alison Bechdel takes place...
...When Bechdel quickly reveals both her father's premature death and that he led a secret life as a deeply closeted, shame-filled gay man, it comes as a shock. What author would give away both a natural narrative climax and the key to a person's mystery right at the beginning of the book? The answer is: the kind of author not interested in easy drama and simplistic explanations. In a series of chapters that more or less follow Bechdel from young childhood until her college years, the book traces her father's story...