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...Birmingham in 1995, Muhammad said: "You got something going special here. Not too many of them [Jews] here. They're in the woodwork, moving behind the scenes, controlling behind the scenes." Elsewhere he called Jews "hooked-nose, bagel-eating, lox-eating, perpetrating-a-fraud" people who had "just crawled out of the ghettoes of Europe...
...answer, more often than not, is nowhere. Across the U.S., average students like Brian Wennerstrum--a group researchers call "woodwork children" because of their tendency to fade into the classroom background--are suffering from an unofficial policy of neglect as public schools overlook students in the middle in favor of the bright stars or the learning disabled. The share of public-school budgets devoted to "regular education"--which almost two-thirds of students receive--plummeted from 80% in 1967 to less than 59% in 1996, according to the Economic Policy Institute. The trend has accelerated in the past decade. From...
...those parents will ever be converted. But average students can still be rescued if policymakers committed to the ideals of public education resist interest-group politics and pressure from powerful parents. Revamping special-education laws, to give school districts more flexibility in distributing resources, would give a boost to woodwork kids. So would offering incentives for schools to minimize ability grouping or bonuses for schools that put top-notch teachers--who generally instruct gifted children--in middle-achieving classrooms. Michigan State's Schmidt says the predicament of America's average students illustrates the need for a set of "national standards...
...Rewards bring people out of the woodwork who would not normally come forward," says UCLA law professor and former public defender Peter Arenella. "Some of them have valuable information; some do not. The Cosby case suggests that under appropriate circumstances such information will be credited." Credit came to So in the form of a check blown up poster-size to look like the jackpot in a Publishers Clearing House commercial. He pledged to donate part of the money to the Ennis William Cosby Foundation. "I'm not an angel," he said. "But I'm not as bad as many people...
Still, bill opponents say the debate demonstrates that campus opinion favors Radcliffe. They say this was evident from the sheer numbers of Radcliffe supporters who came out of the woodwork to fight for maintaining the difference between men's and women's diplomas...