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...because he knew he was going to have to take Jill too." At 46, Jill Ruckelshaus is not a typical political wife. She holds a master's degree in education from Harvard. She prefers backyard basketball to black-tie dinners, and a quiet family life in a Seattle suburb to the social whirl of Washington, D.C. A decade ago, her vocal support of women's rights earned her the nickname "the Gloria Steinem of the Republican Party...
Reagan again argued that merit pay for teachers and a return to basics would do more to remedy the "mediocrity" in the schools than infusions of new federal money. On a visit to Farragut High School in a suburb of Knoxville, he listened approvingly as Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander outlined his "master teacher" plan. It would offer salaries of up to $27,100 for top teachers, in contrast with a current high of about $17,800. "If we want to achieve excellence, we must reward it," Reagan said. "It is the American way." While the President was in Tennessee...
...gymnasium in the Minneapolis suburb was hot and airless. Students squirmed T in the bleachers while a panel of teachers and politicians discussed the quality of education. One shirtsleeved speaker, however, held the audience rapt. "I just have a feeling that maybe the generation that went through the Great Depression and the great war, World War II, maybe we thought we ought to make things easier for our children," mused the President. "Maybe we're partly responsible for what has happened." Ronald Reagan's main message to the forum in Hopkins, Minn., sponsored by his National Commission...
...Quinteros live just east of Bell Gardens. Their town is Montebello (pop. 53,000), a well-tended middle-class suburb that in 20 years has changed from entirely Anglo to 65% Hispanic...
Ride's origins are as all-American as her achievements. She grew up in Encino, Calif., a Los Angeles suburb, reading a lot of science fiction as well as Nancy Drew and James Bond. Her father Dale taught political science at Santa Monica College; her mother Joyce stayed home with Sally and her younger sister Karen. Neither parent pushed her in any particular direction, "except to make sure I studied and brought home the right kind of grades...