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...ve known for a long time that there are too many bad schools in the U.S., dropout factories that shove barely literate children through the system. Because of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) - the George W. Bush - era education law that forces every school to report whether it makes "adequate yearly progress" toward nationwide math- and reading-proficiency standards - we can now point to exactly which schools are the lowest performing and the least improving. With that information in hand, the question becomes, Well, what do we do about it? (See TIME's special report on paying for college...
...could go back and tell yourself to not do one thing during the financial crisis, what would that be, and why? -Kathy Ackerman, Minneapolis I've obviously thought about this a lot, and I believe that the major decisions we made were the right ones. But I've got a list of things that I would like to have done better. For instance, when we sent the Troubled Asset Relief Program [TARP] proposal to Congress, it was a three-page outline. It was not intended to be a complete request. It was intended to be a starting point for negotiation...
What can the average person do to help the national economy? -Soyeun Yang, Superior, Colo. It just really comes back to all the virtues we've been taught since we were born: hard work, education, having the proper skill set. Americans, in my judgment, are the most entrepreneurial, innovative people in the world. Sure, we have our problems, but I can't find another major economy that doesn't have more serious ones...
...report from consultants Ernst & Young. Named after Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, a small-town boy made great, the report found that India's provincial consumers were increasing in importance, thanks to growing aspirations and incomes. "Earlier, it was just Bombay and Delhi, but since 2004 we've been seeing the rise of Tier 2 India," says Ashok Rajgopal, a partner in Ernst & Young's business-advisory services. See TIME's photo-essay "The Tempestuous Nehru Dynasty of India...
...mind prejudiced ideas about eastern Kentucky and Appalachia, and I wasn’t sure my partner and I would be comfortable or even safe,” he said. “But I’ve found that the parish at St. Martha’s has been very friendly and accepting...