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...leader, has become Prime Minister, after months of violent political upheaval and seven years of rule by former PM Thaksin Shinawatra (now in exile) and his party. Weeks after a Thai court dissolved the ruling party for fraud, parliament voted 235 to 198 in favor of Vejjajiva, the middle-class candidate, over a Thaksin loyalist supported by the rural poor...
...Decades of research show that two main factors result in better educational outcomes for poor and minority children: intensive, individualized early preschooling and small elementary-school classes. Yet for the past decade, the focus has been entirely on teacher quality. Why? It's cheaper and more palatable politically. Of course, it's better to have a good teacher than a poor one. But if you put the best teacher in a run-down school with a class of 35 students, most of them not up to par with their class level and some with developmental and discipline problems, that teacher...
...Reviving the GOP In "Rebooting the Right" [Dec. 1], Ramesh Ponnuru suggests that dejected Republicans can revitalize their rejected party by paying attention to the middle class, addressing global warming, making health care affordable and promoting assimilation rather than xenophobia. He proposes, in other words, that Republicans become Democrats, or at least move to the center, with an eye toward the 2012 elections. But I think the GOP should shoot for 2020. In Britain, as Ponnuru points out, conservatives lost power nearly 12 years ago. It will take at least that long, and probably longer, for Americans to forget...
...Chicago public school students showed up for class on the first day of the year. By 2003, the rate was 89%. Duncan has sent district representatives to students' homes to urge them to attend and offered tickets to sporting events to lure students to school. First-day attendance levels help determine year-long state funding levels...
...majority of our students don't come from families with a lot of economic wealth. I'm always trying to level the playing field...This is the kind of incentive that middle-class families have had for decades." - on his decision to implement a program to pay students at 20 Chicago public schools for good grades, Chicago Tribune, Sept...