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...vigil will take another look at the Columbus Day holiday. When asked about Christopher Columbus' most important achievement, most people think of the obvious, his so-called "discovery" of America. Every American schoolchild can point to the teacher that told him of Columbus' discovery of America, and the person that taught him the famous nmenonic device "in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue." I can remember seeing the painting of Columbus meeting with native Americans on a beach in a history book and just placing that in my mind as Columbus' discovery of America...
...schoolchild looking at the outlines of South America and Africa on the world map may intuitively fit the puzzle together, and behold -- the principle of continental drift...
...Every schoolchild is taught the impropriety of claiming credit for someone else's work. But in adult life, the rules on plagiarism are often hazily understood, even by those whose trade is to point the finger. Within a six-day span this month, the nation's two leading dailies, the New York Times and the Washington Post, confessed to plagiarizing stories from rival papers and disciplined the guilty reporters, while the journalism school at Boston University replaced its dean, H. Joachim Maitre, after he lifted much of his commencement speech from an obscure journal...
...involves a foiled attempt to revise the USDA's dietary guidelines. In 1958 the department introduced its "basic four" food-group chart, which divided food into four major categories: milk, meat, vegetables and fruits, and bread and cereals. The groups were quickly branded into the brain of every American schoolchild as of equal importance...
...point plan to boost overall standards by the end of the decade. Education Secretary Lamar Alexander has persuaded Bush to call for a new core curriculum in math, the sciences, history and English. To make sure all states meet basic requirements, there would be national testing of every schoolchild in the fourth, eighth and 12th grades. Bush is expected once again to endorse a proposal to give parents a choice of schools for their children and a plan to hold teachers more accountable. Both are long-standing elements of the Republican education platform, and in their current form have been...