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...multiply whole numbers, represent data on a graph, estimate computations and relate fractions to decimals. Specific common standards would allow textbook and curriculum developers to spend their research dollars achieving clear goals rather than producing various versions for different states. Just because the standards are national does not mean, thank goodness, that they need to be written by the Federal Government. Indeed, it's hard to imagine a more frightening sight than that of all 535 members of Congress grappling with a congregation of bureaucrats and voting on whether high school graduates should or should not be required, for example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Raise the Standard in America's Schools | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

...Iowa. Although many of the stereotypes about the Midwest are true, they rarely do justice to our progressivism—an aspect of Midwestern culture as significant as publishing newspapers with no news or responding to “thank you” with “you bet.” Every election cycle, the national media lumps Iowa together with every other so-called flyover state into a place named “the heartland” and emphasizes how strongly we believe in “family values,” which means they can count...

Author: By Marianne F. Kaletzky | Title: Matters of the Heart(land) | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

...April 13-1861 Washington thank God we have a government Jonth Dillon.' JONATHAN DILLON, watchmaker, in a newly discovered message engraved in a pocket watch repaired for Abraham Lincoln on the day after the Civil War began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

...reading this, u shud b ashamed ov yourself, u shud b sleep,go 2 bed I say.” At the height of our thesis slumps, my friends and I read this as it was posted. Shaq, I thought, my mother would thank you for caring about my sleep deprivation. I would typically follow your advice, but my bibliography is only half done! For the next few days, I willfully checked THE_REAL_SHAQ each time I took a thesis break. Shaq wrote about everything from his travels with the Phoenix Suns...

Author: By Aditi Banga, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shaqsomania Has Struck | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

...Toyota 4x4. His aim was to demonstrate that he, not the Tupac Amaru guerrillas who were holding 72 civilians (including Fujimori's brother) at the embassy residence, who enjoyed the support of the country's poor. At one shantytown he rolled down his window and basked in the thank-yous for the new streets and microbuses. One woman called out, "Fuji, the new water pumps you gave us aren't working!" Ever the engineer, Fujimori shot back, "Do you have the pressure set right?" He opened the Toyota's door and was about to step out until he stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fujimori's Last Stand: Peru's Ex-President Found Guilty | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

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