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...System (MCAS) tests have improved—in some cases substantially. But because of the way progress is measured, many schools still find themselves on the federal watch list due to disparities in performance among subgroups: white, black, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American students, as well as low-income, special education, and limited English students. Under the No Child Left Behind Act, school progress is measured by overall improvement in both English and Math, and reducing the gap among subgroups in both English and Math. A school that fails to make progress in any one of these areas is flagged...
...season is open on Mike Huckabee In the bizzaro universe of presidential politics, it was something of a compliment when former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney made a seemingly casual swipe at a back-of-the-pack rival during a recent Iowa television interview. Mike Huckabee, he declared, had supported "special tuition breaks to the children of illegal immigrants...
...story of this butt-kicking is a quin-tessential Washington tale, illustrating how a single special interest with a single-minded devotion to a cause can trump a broad coalition and the national interest. The Senate is considering a similar bill, and a reform effort led by Republican Richard Lugar of Indiana seems likely to meet a similar fate. The Bush Administration has made noises about a veto; Kind says the President, famously reluctant to admit mistakes, confided in a private chat that he regrets signing the lavish 2002 bill. But it's never wise to bet against the farm...
...Business School faculty voted to drop special minority admissions procedures, arguing that they were no longer needed to ensure enrollment of black, Hispanic, Asian-American, and Native American students...
...were forbidden to have more than two children, and families went to great lengths to ensure that at least one was a son - including aborting girl babies, especially if they already had one daughter. Vietnamese online forums carry threads devoted to how to ensure conceiving a boy - everything from special diet to especially rigorous sex to pre-intercourse douching with an alkaline solution. "I've tried everything, and even cleaned with the special solution, but I am still pregnant with a girl," lamented one woman on an online forum. "Do you think my doctor sold me a fake product...