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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same cloud of outrage and optimism that has been wrapped around him all year, Gingrich took to the phones on the afternoon of Election Day still predicting that the President would be made to pay for his sins and that the Republicans would pick up six to 30 seats. But as the hours passed, the numbers just kept getting worse, and by 10 p.m. the Republicans were barely breaking even in the House. Then another seat looked vulnerable. Then seven more. Then, around 10:45, 13 seats. "At that point, we thought we lost the House," one said later. When...
...issue in the coming presidential primaries, and Bush's success on the subject stands in stark contrast to the dismal record of his party's fallen Washington leaders. Congressional Republicans have backed away from their disastrous plan to abolish the federal Department of Education, and some took strange pride recently in blocking Bill Clinton's multibillion-dollar public-school construction plan. They have remained wedded to conservative shibboleths like education savings accounts and private-school vouchers, which have little appeal to the 89% of Americans who send their children to public schools. Says Ravitch: "Bush is so far ahead...
...part, he's been lucky. When he took office, Bush was the beneficiary of a decade's worth of reform efforts beginning with Ross Perot's mid-'80s movement to reduce class sizes and install statewide testing and accountability. By 1995 the state education code had been scrapped and the legislature was at work on a new one that would push authority down to the local school districts. Like any gifted politician, Bush commandeered the train, adding some cars of his own and taking credit for laying its track...
...they want as long as they get results." He reduced the regulatory authority of the Texas education agency but increased accountability by beefing up and enforcing state standards. Most important, he started tracking results by race and ethnicity, rewarding schools that boost performance--especially minority performance. He also took on state teachers' colleges, telling them that 70% of graduates in each minority group must pass the state teacher-certification exam or the schools would risk losing accreditation; 35 of the state's 86 colleges are now on probation. Says Jeanne Allen, president of the Center for Education Reform, "Few Governors...
...sources of cells, however, were not human beings in a legal sense. The Johns Hopkins researchers took theirs from fetuses that had been aborted early in pregnancy. The Wisconsin group used blastocysts, clusters of about 140 cells that develop within a week after fertilization. (They were donated by couples who had extra blastocysts left over from in-vitro fertilization.) The scientists, however, were hardly indifferent to ethical concerns. At Johns Hopkins, for example, it took nearly four years of testimony in front of scientific and ethical review panels before the work could even begin. Says team leader John Gearhart...