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...report, the commission claims that Social Security will be in a "cash deficit" by 2016, because benefit checks paid out of the Social Security trust fund will start to exceed taxes collected from workers. Unless the program is changed, the report warns, the public can look forward to "either painful tax increases, significant benefit cuts or astronomical levels of borrowing...
...Good Thing: Raising Children of Character in an Indulgent Age, in which he warns parents against spoiling their children either materially or emotionally, against trying to make kids' lives perfect. Using the body's immune system as a metaphor, Kindlon argues, "The body cannot learn to adapt to stress unless it experiences it. Indulged children are often less able to cope with stress because their parents have created an atmosphere where their whims are indulged, where they have always assumed...that they're entitled and that life should be a bed of roses...
Recent efforts have been taken—both on the state level and on the national level by President Bush—to hold teachers accountable for the performance of their students through testing and even to hold students back unless they can successfully pass tests. Using testing for such important decisions is often referred to as “high-stakes” testing...
...time to grow up and recognize that on the issue of racism, we live in a world covered in warts, scars and open wounds. Healing those is always going to hurt. In fact, unless a global discussion on racism is painful and uncomfortable, it's probably not getting anywhere...
...boroughs of this great nation, and our democracy is to be truly representative, we all need to get out there and vote. And in order for that to happen, our leaders have to come to terms with this simple fact: Americans are busy people. We don?t do anything unless we?re promised great things for our efforts or, conversely, unless our inaction is linked to dire consequences...