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Nonfiction: "The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education," by Diane Ravitch (Today)
(21 Mar 2010 06:06)
... not from a former U.S. Department of Education official who had actively promoted those reforms. ... in the education department during the first Bush administration, and she served on the board ... the White House East Room when President George W. Bush announced the education reform plans ...
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Former superintendent dedicated life to educating others
(21 Mar 2010 01:10)
... Haynie loved children, devoted his life to education and was service-oriented, according to his family ... the National Education Advisory Committee under President George H.W. Bush. Scharnberg said her father loved children of ...
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Obama ups the ante on bad policy for schools
(21 Mar 2010 09:29)
... debt to teachers' unions by creating the Education Department, a national commission declared America "a ... bigotry of low expectations," in 2001 President George W. Bush undertook the loopy idealism of preposterous expectations. ...
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Blair curses, Brown rages in damning political portrait
(21 Mar 2010 05:23)
... By George Walden Bloomberg News As a British general ... horror at the election of George W. Bush, inspired a sense of mission in the ... lower than elsewhere in Europe. Expenditure on education has doubled, yet more parents than ever ...
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Emily Young: America is wandering in the wilderness
(21 Mar 2010 05:36)
... hope for a decent livelihood without higher education. No more. The one remaining sector where ... foreign lands. I had hoped that President George W. Bush, as a professed born-again Christian, ... because retribution is not Christian. But President Bush did, as did Congress, which is elected ...
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Anti-war protesters rally near White House; 5 arrested
(21 Mar 2010 10:45)
... 2005 for protesting outside of former President George W. Bush's Texas ranch. She is now ... cause. Saturday's crowd carried signs including "Indict Bush now" and "We need jobs and schools ... States. Some called for greater funding for education and other priorities, echoed by those attending ...
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NOT SO OPEN
(21 Mar 2010 08:16)
... year, up from 47,395 times during President George W. Bush’s final full budget year, according ... from the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, ...
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U.S. slow on public records
(21 Mar 2010 09:25)
... a series of memoranda to reverse a Bush administration inclination toward withholding records. But the ... Security Archive, a private open-government project at George Washington University. Each year, the archive analyzes ... the departments of Agriculture, Labor, State and Education, and the Office of the U.S. Trade ...
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Obama's education plan calls for sensible changes
(20 Mar 2010 03:37)
... is characteristic of compulsive gamblers and federal education policy. The nation was essentially without such ... bigotry of low expectations," in 2001, President George W. Bush undertook the loopy idealism of preposterous expectations. ...
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Islamic Obsession
(20 Mar 2010 05:43)
... bomb. In April 1993, former US President George Bush was under assassination attack while in Kuwait. ... a rocket attack against the Minister of Education. In June 2004, bombs explode close to ...
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Review: The End of the Party -- the Rise and Fall of New Labour by Andrew Rawnsley
(20 Mar 2010 10:57)
... one year into serving his second term. George Bush and Blair were unexpectedly brought closely together ... Ruairi Quinn is Labour Party spokesman for education and science ...
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Obama mocks cable chatter: 'Will his presidency be crippled, or will he be the comeback kid? " It's just like SportsCenter' - Plouffe v. Rove on ABC tomorrow -- Rich Ward engaged
(20 Mar 2010 12:17)
... can't afford not to do this.” ENGAGED: Bush White House Travel Office maestro Rich Ward ... providing an accredited, accountable and accessible higher education to more Americans. Because an Educated World ... of its people.” From Obama’s remarks at George Mason: “Now, it would be nice if ...
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Daniel Cassidy ObamaCare: an urgent message to our Catholic readers
(20 Mar 2010 13:18)
... In 1989, he was appointed by President George H.W. Bush as Special Assistant in the U.S. Department ... Policy. In 1994, he became Director of Education Policy for Jersey City Mayor Bret Schundler, ...
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Religion news
(20 Mar 2010 16:58)
... it will name its Center for Catholic Education after Patrick and Barbara Roche. The Roches ... awards, was appointed NEA chairman by President George W. Bush in 2003. He held the position for ...
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Stumbling About In the Graveyard of Empires
(20 Mar 2010 12:19)
... Obama is not quite as lame as George W. Bush in this respect (not exactly a stunning ... of other uses of the money from education to infrastructure to paying down the national ...
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