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Beyond Bush's claim of a "compassionate conservatism," he mixes old-party line Republican policy with new conservative ideology. The issues Bush has trumpeted on the campaign trail include his tax cut proposals and educational reforms...
Tamala Edwards (on the campaign trail with Bill Bradley in Manhattan...
...Carney (on the campaign trail with George W. Bush in Austin, Texas...
...used these rigid curriculums have seen spikes in sagging test scores, especially among disadvantaged kids. Parents, anxious about the rising importance of standardized tests, like the guarantee that all students will be exposed to a uniform set of skills. And politicians have begun touting the idea on the campaign trail. Al Gore's education agenda cites the benefits of a "core curriculum"; George W. Bush recently spoke at a school that has one. "Teachers don't need creativity," says Diane Ravitch, an education official under President George Bush. "Teachers need to use methods that have proved successful...
Green and Bastone launched the smokinggun.com with the intention, as Bastone puts it, of "paving a paper trail." The site has a retro look (thanks to Bastone's wife Barbara Glauber, who designed it) and a cheeky sensibility, but the real hook is the documents it obtains through the Freedom of Information Act, among them court records, FBI files and blueprints. "We had no idea how to do bells and whistles," recalls Bastone, sitting in a living room that mirrors the olive-and-orange palette of the site. Their operation has no office, and Green concedes that their "L.A. correspondent...