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...Beyond saving money, Bobb sees his mission in broader terms: to improve the system's miserable academic performance. Again, the situation is dire. Last month brought news that more than three-quarters of the 900 eighth-graders who took a national math exam scored at "below basic" levels. In October 2008, some 57% of Detroit third- through eighth-graders essentially failed a state writing test. Detroit's graduation rate is 58%. "The system is academically bankrupt. This is almost academic homicide," Bobb says. (See pictures of a public boarding school...
...want those expensive name-brand sneakers so badly? "It takes confidence to take a stand and to think differently," says Jeroo Billimoria, founder of Aflatoun, a nonprofit whose curriculum, used in more than 30 countries, aims to help kids get a leg up in their financial lives. "This goes beyond money and savings...
...California's law is found to violate the 14th Amendment (which guarantees due process and equal protection), it could threaten anti-gay-marriage statutes well beyond the Golden State. Since November, laws supporting same-sex unions have passed in Washington, D.C., but have been defeated in Maine, New Jersey and New York. Whichever way the decision goes, an eventual appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court is a virtual certainty...
...clamor to have Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab declared an enemy combatant and hauled before a military tribunal ignores several inconvenient facts ... A military tribunal would provide many of the same protections about which critics complain: the presumption of innocence, proof beyond a reasonable doubt, access to counsel. The string-'em-up itch is understandable, but a military tribunal won't soothe...
...their presence could change the dynamics of discussions--yet was willing to tutor them privately. And though she was the recipient of doctorates in religion and sacred theology, she left the church and confronted its politics. Daly also authored 10 books, including The Church and the Second Sex and Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation. "There is nothing like the sound of women really laughing," she wrote in Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism. She was a central figure in contemporary feminist thought, and her influence is unlikely to fade...