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After 47 years in education, I am not surprised that ninth-grade students drop out of public schools, as did one of my grandsons. The problem started many years ago, when junior high schools were dropped in favor of middle schools. We need to return to having junior high serve Grades 7 through 9 and high school serve Grades 10 through 12. Sixth-graders are not ready for middle school; they are still immature. And ninth-graders struggling with the transition into their teen years face similar problems. Let's reconsider how we group students...
...passengers are frustrated, so are airlines, which are starting to lose money despite brisk demand. The problem: the country's superannuated airports have been overwhelmed. Since the government opened India's skies to greater competition four years ago, the number of air passengers has nearly doubled, from 48.8 million in the year ending March 31, 2004, to 95 million today. Meanwhile, nine private airlines have started up in recent years. Some, like Kingfisher Airlines, are full service, but most are low-cost carriers that have wooed millions of travelers away from India's sluggish train and bus networks--and into...
Most Republicans can ignore this extremism. But not anyone running for President. It is a special problem for former Governor Mitt Romney and former mayor Rudy Giuliani, both of whom used to favor abortion rights. Their different solutions test the question, What is the best way to safely dispose of a fundamental moral belief that you wish you didn't have...
...embryo farming" an actual issue in Massachusetts while Romney was Governor? Well, maybe. Romney's problem is that flip-flops use up a lot of stored credit and goodwill, and he has been to that storage closet too often lately on other matters, such as gun control...
...there. A social activist, motivational speaker and actress--she played Parks in the 1978 mini-series King--Yolanda was the most visible family member during this year's Martin Luther King Day--the first since her mother's death last year. She collapsed, of a suspected heart problem, after giving a speech in Santa Monica, Calif...