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...Netherlands in many respects is Europe's model economy, with an official unemployment rate of 4%--the lowest in the E.U. except for tiny Luxembourg, at 2.8%. Its boom helped the country cut joblessness more than 50% since the early 1990s. "We're working at capacity," says Joop Hartog, professor of economics at the University of Amsterdam. "We should be happy with that." An active labor policy bolsters the boom by offering tax credits for low earners, more child-care and after-school facilities to ease women's path into employment, and more intensive mentoring--or hectoring--of unemployed...
...diaspora in the U.S. tends to be the intellectual and commercial elite. According to the Center for Immigration Studies, only 3% of Indian arrivals lack a high school education, and 75% of working Indians are college graduates. (For immigrants from China, the figure is 55%.) Says Rajini Srikanth, a professor of Asian-American studies at the University of Massachusetts: "What we got were people who already came blessed with all kinds of valuable baggage." In many cases, the Indian schools that newcomers had attended were as good as or better than many of their U.S. counterparts...
...Some educators argue that the program is pointless paper pushing. Worse, they insist, grades will turn off the very parents schools need to engage. "Should a single parent who works two jobs and doesn't have much time for school activities get her knuckles rapped?" asks Gary Natriello, a professor at Columbia University's Teachers College who has studied report cards of all kinds. "It will only make her more likely to hide at home...
...dramatically must come back up, experts say, even if only a little bit. "It's like going on a diet. You can lose most of the fat in the earliest stages; then it gets harder to lose more, or even retain the loss," says Eli Silverman, a criminal-justice professor at John Jay College. New York's police officials also downplay the significance of the change...
...Everybody should just stay calm," says John Dilulio Jr., a University of Pennsylvania political-science professor and co-author of the book Body Count. Dilulio is known for his dire predictions of a new wave of juvenile violent crime, but even he is not moved by the recent glitches in some cities' murder rates. Give it 18 more months, he says, then we'll talk...