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...achievement gap in education between white and minority students has not narrowed significantly since 2004, according to data released earlier this week from a national test of 26,000 students that tracks long-term trends in reading and math proficiency. Results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, which the National Center for Education Statistics has published every four years since the early 1970s, show that while young minorities have made academic gains, concurrent improvements in the performance of white students have kept the achievement gap consistently wide. Among high-school-age students, that gulf translated to a roughly...
...clear that the mission created confusion and disruption.' LOUIS CALDERA, director of the White House Military Office, apologizing for failing to notify New York City officials, after an official from George W. Bush's Administration accused him of "felony stupidity...
...ghostly outline, stripped of any associations with fashion or taste--into the stark spaces and barred enclosures of his pictures. You detect them for the first time in his series of paintings from the 1950s that were drawn from the great Velázquez portrait of Pope Innocent X. Flickering white perimeters form a cage for the Pontiff's impotent fury. Why a Pope? With Bacon there's never one answer. His great gift was for visual and psychological conflation, for compressing multiple possibilities into a single sliding form. Trapped in a kind of isolation booth, where a thunderstorm of granular...
...economy writ large, where health care now accounts for about 17% of all spending, more than double its percentage in 1970. "Ironically, the things that may wind up being the most important are the things that we will get little or no credit for" under the budget rules, says White House Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag...
...biggest ways to raise money to pay for health-care reform is also the most politically delicate: taxing employer-provided health benefits. It's an idea that Obama criticized when his opponent John McCain proposed it during last year's presidential campaign, but one that his top White House advisers now say should remain on the table. And it is an approach that Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus says he is considering...