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...consistently back testing in national polls, and with policy makers, who use tests to gauge the success of other school reforms. Recent studies detailed the soaring test scores among black students who used vouchers to enroll in private schools, and among California immigrants after that state required they be taught only in English. Despite noisy protest rallies in Massachusetts and Virginia last spring, support for high-stakes testing remains strong. In a new poll for the Business Roundtable, 68% of those surveyed say students should pass statewide tests to graduate; 75% think that even elementary schoolers should have...
...years or more, in contrast to the whites' 200 or less, the Aborigines were not giving up. So the policy changed to assimilation. First, the Aborigines were deprived of their nomadic tribal life and concentrated in "mission stations," communities run mainly by Protestant evangelists, where they were taught the Gospels, shown white ways and prepared for low-level jobs as servants...
...Billy Carter and Roger Clinton have taught us, First Brothers are supposed to be screw-ups. (We're watching you, Marvin Bush.) Now, in a nice postmodern twist, even fictional presidential brothers are causing headaches. JOE ESTEVEZ, sibling of West Wing Oval Office sitter and lefty activist MARTIN SHEEN, recorded a very Sheen-like voice-over for a convention ad touting the decidedly right-wing Hunting and Shooting Sports Heritage Foundation. While it's not Estevez's fault that he sounds exactly like his brother, a firearms-industry representative says the hire was no accident. "Let's just say this...
...securing dates with neighborhood sweethearts. My skinny body and quick reflexes made me a popular choice for serious teams and consequently a hot item on the street, until Daniel Block walked into the picture. "Flash," as they started calling him, was a 16-year-old French Jew whose father taught painting at my high school. Though Daniel concealed being a Jew, he was boisterous about being the best ballon chasseur player and about having persuaded May Qudsi to let him peek at her underpants behind closed doors. May was not only my flame but a Palestinian to boot (in Arabic...
When TAMALA M. EDWARDS first met 27-year-old Karenna Gore Schiff for lunch, she expected the Child of a Very Important Father. After all, this was a woman whose Senator father taught her to ride a bike on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol. But to her surprise, Edwards says, Karenna has mastered the role of the girl next door. "She's very good at not seeming pompous while talking about her very abnormal upbringing," Edwards says. During the hours they spent together, Karenna was relaxed, personable--and remarkably tuned in to the day-to-day details...