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...notion that parents are wholly against standardized tests. The conclusion: Parents want standardized tests. They just don't want them to mean everything to children and their schools. According to one, a poll of 803 parents of public school children in grades K-12 released Thursday by the non-partisan, non-profit group Public Agenda, a full 82% agreed that states have been "careful and reasonable" in implementing new standards. Only 11 percent said their kids are taking too many standardized exams, 12 percent felt these tests unfairly difficult and 18 percent said schools are neglecting "real learning" in favor...
Like the decidedly partisan crowd at the IOP, the Park Plaza Democrats seemed very pleased with Gore's performance and the debate in general...
Eligible voter participation in presidential elections fell below half for the first time, to 49 percent in the 1996 race, according to the non-partisan Committee for the Study of the American Electorate (CSAE). And these same statistics reveal the emerging participation of a voting class: distinguishable ethnically, regionally and socioeconomically from the non-voters to a degree that makes difference between voting Democrats and Republicans nearly indistinguishable...
...know the kids will be all right. These days our younger daughter sports a new T shirt, courtesy of Grandma, that reads, SOMEDAY A WOMAN WILL BE PRESIDENT! Her big sister trades partisan insults with other sixth-graders, who already identify themselves as Republicans or Democrats. And their two-year-old brother has actually been spotted watching C-SPAN. Maybe it's because Dad left the TV on, but hey, it's a start...
...temperature in the gymnasium housing the debate will be a carefully regulated 65 degrees. Not so cold as to require Bush to wear his Yale scarf (thereby infuriating the partisan Boston audience) but cool enough to waylay Gore's sweat glands' unfortunate tendency to overreact under pressure...