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The case was argued, heartstrings were tugged and the gauntlet was hurled in President Barack Obama’s remarkable 50-minute address to the nation and a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night.
The president’s speech may not convince a narrowly divided Congress to…
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President-elect Barack Obama took playground basketball to new heights when he nominated Arne Duncan to become the next U.S. Secretary of Education.
Mr. Duncan, 44, is a veteran of the president-elect’s Chicago pickup hoop games, and he also is the…
Primary and elementary schools are right to focus on the basics, but last week brought troubling news that a multi-billion-dollar national initiative to improve reading among young students appears to have fallen flat.
“Reading First” is the program in question. It’s a…
