As Congress reviews federal efforts to boost student performance, new research published in Educational Researcher (ER) reports that progress in raising test scores was stronger before No Child Left Behind was approved in 2002, compared with the four years following enactment of the law.
Archive for October 8th, 2007
No Child Left Behind has actually SLOWED student progress
October 8, 2007Federal Agencies Moving HQs “Outside of Washington D.C. Fallout Zone”
October 8, 2007Yes, that’s one of the official reasons being given by the FBI, FEMA, and other Federal agencies that are relocating their operations to rural Virginia – far enough from the capital to escape the fallout of a nuclear explosion (an estimated 50-mile radius) “This level of dispersal didn’t even happen at the height of the Cold War.”
Ex-Secret Service agent says retired Bush a high-value terror target
October 8, 2007It’s going to take 103 Secret Service agents to protect President George W. Bush when he leaves office in 1999. If someone plots to assassinate him, hopefully that won’t prompt Jenna and Barbara to run for office and invade another country because ‘they tried to kill my dad.’
Remembering the 12 year fight for the Freedom of Information Act
October 8, 2007July 4th marks the 41st anniversary of the enactment of the Freedom of Information Act, one of the most significant laws ever passed by the US Congress. It was a 12-year battle waged by a stubborn congressman from Calif. named John Moss, who took on two administrations in the grip of Cold War fever to gain Americans the right to access information
GIs Wanted Mats, Got Insults Instead
October 8, 2007An American GI assigned to one of the harshest posts in Iraq had a simple request last week for a Wisconsin mattress company: send some floor mats to help ease the hardship of sleeping on the cold, bug-infested ground.
What he got, instead, was a swift kick from the company’s Web site, which not only refused the request but added insult to injur
The Gandhi Protests
October 8, 2007Denied the permanent U.S. residency they’d been promised, high-skilled workers are taking to the streets in nonviolent protest
“It’s not my party anymore” – Former RI Senator Chafee leaves the GOP
October 8, 2007Former Sen. Lincoln Chafee said he has left the Republican Party because the national GOP has drifted too far from him on critical issues, including the war in Iraq, the economy and the environment.
Why isn’t Congress asking tough questions about Pentagon spending? – Slate
October 8, 2007Adjusting for inflation, the Pentagon budget is larger than at the peak of the Cold War—in fact, larger than any budget since the Korean War. Again, this is true, apart from the money allocated for the current wars.Shouldn’t some legislators be asking about the ways the Pentagon is spending so much money and whether all those ways are necessary?
Obama launches presidential bid
October 8, 2007Democratic Senator Barack Obama has officially launched his presidential campaign with a speech in Illinois.
Secrets to Be Declassified Under New Rule at Age 25
October 8, 2007“At midnight on Dec. 31, hundreds of millions of pages of secret documents will be instantly declassified, including many F.B.I. cold war files on investigations of people suspected of being Communist sympathizers. After years of extensions sought by federal agencies behaving like college students facing a term paper, the end of 2006…”
