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...what really counts may be pubbability - an elusive X factor that makes voters want to share a pint with a politician. And on that front, Gordon Brown - the 56-year-old Scot who is expected to replace Tony Blair as Britain's Prime Minister this summer - has a problem...
Poverty and lack of education were recognized early on as the root problem of these disaffected youths. Nobody understood this better than G. Stanley Hall, an American psychology pioneer who is the book's unlikely hero. In 1898, Hall defined a new stage of life called "adolescence," characterized by parental conflict, moodiness and risk taking. Contrary to the disciplinarian ethos of the day, Hall recommended that adolescents be given "room to be lazy." His prediction that "we shall one day attract the youth of the world by our unequaled liberty and opportunity," not only prophesied a culture that would revere...
...economic policies, he has presided over an economy that has broken records by notching up an astonishing 58 consecutive quarters of growth. Yet he still faces the huge task of raising the quality of public services, particularly the health system, up to French levels. (The French have their own problems extracting value for money from their hospitals, but at least patients don't need to wait six months for a nonemergency medical procedure.) Both countries have a spending problem: French national debt has quintupled since 1980, while Britain is running a budget deficit equivalent to 3.5% of its GDP, according...
...annual average of 76 school-discipline cases made their way to appeals courts, according to Arum, but from 1976 to '89, the annual average dropped to 29. A few years later, though, the number of student lawsuits began to rise again as schools confronted an alarming new problem: gangs...
Just as schools were beginning to solve the gang problem, a scarier threat emerged: mass killings like the April 1999 massacre at Columbine High School near Littleton, Colo. Some teachers and principals began to see potential threats behind all kinds of behavior, provoking free-speech disputes that often landed in court. In 2000 a teacher at Northwest School in Leominster, Mass., kicked Michael Demers, 15, out of class for talking. Another teacher asked Demers how he felt about the ejection, and Demers drew two pictures: one of explosives surrounding the school and another of a gun pointed at the superintendent...