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In the hallway, she muttered about teachers who spend too much time cutting out elaborate bulletin-board decorations or chitchatting at "morning meetings" with their third-graders before the real work begins. "We're in Washington, D.C., in the nation's capital," she said later. "And yet the children of...
The most glaring example of the backward logic of schools is the way most teachers receive lifetime job security after one or two years of work. As Larry Rosenstock, CEO of eight California charter schools, noted at an education panel last spring, we don't give that kind of job...
Over the past three decades, the United States has slowly but surely shifted away from an economy based on the secondary sector and transitioned into an era in which knowledge-based service industries dominate. In this “new economy,” those with postsecondary degrees are essential...
A number of policy changes at both state and federal levels have left basic cash-assistance programs scarce, the center's study argues. State general-assistance programs were largely eliminated across the country in the late 1980s and early '90s, except for programs benefiting the disabled. On the federal level...
Opponents of the SOFA want the U.S. military to leave Iraq sooner than the 2012 deadline that al-Maliki is pushing for. But many of the sheiks are leaders of the Awakening Councils, the U.S.-funded paramilitaries that helped drive al-Qaeda out of Anbar. They - and thousands of their...