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The plan also needs to be more explicit about what should happen to persistently failing schools. While the $4 billion federal Race to the Top competition, which began in 2009, gives states incentives to close schools after all other strategies to improve achievement have failed, Obama's new proposal is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Obama's Education Plan Make the Grade? | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

But what ideas do these fringe characters decamp with? Where do they go? And what, if anything, are they up to now? What is most perplexing is the vague intersection between those so-called patriots who merely spread the word Paul Revere-style, those who are arming themselves in anticipation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Threat from the Patriot Movement | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

Unfortunately, newcomers to the movement will find few guideposts that signal, This way the true believers, that way the dangerous zealots. The ranks of the antifederalist insurgency include plenty of the former: tax protesters, home schoolers, Christian fundamentalists and well-versed Constitutionalists. But the groups also contain an insidious sprinkling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Threat from the Patriot Movement | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

Koernke unequivocally denies any involvement in the Oklahoma blast, but he has capitalized on the atrocity to rally his followers around the idea of government complicity in the explosion. On his shortwave radio broadcast the day of the bombing, he exhorted true believers in Oklahoma to grab their video cameras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Threat from the Patriot Movement | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

Such distinctions, however, are not always apparent. Two days after the bombing, 550 patriot Christians gathered in Branson, Missouri, for the International Coalition of Covenant Congregations Conference. "I mingled with a lot of people there, and there was not a shred of sympathy for what happened in Oklahoma," an attendee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Threat from the Patriot Movement | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

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