Rethinking Third Grade Retention and Reading Policy
The piece argues against fixing promotion by a single reading score and urges balanced, early literacy support. It notes social promotion impacts, advocates for comprehensive early intervention, and warns against overreliance on tests to guide teacher pay and student fate. It calls for compromise and broader reading assistance in lower grades.
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Santa FE
New Mexico
Florida
Martinez
Education
Hanna Skandera
Jay Miller
la Tusa
Hotmail
Obama signals faster Afghan pullout plan and Afghan-led phaseout
Editorial notes Obama accelerates withdrawal from Afghanistan with most combat troops gone by year end and training to Afghan forces by 2014. Karzai welcomes reduced night raids and prison control, but Taliban resilience and regional security risks loom as the war nears its end.
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Barack Obama
Afghanistan
U.S
Obama
Washington
Hamid Karzai
Karzai
Pentagon
United States
Iraq
Gore faces critique over Current TV sale to Al Jazeera
The Greenwood Commonwealth notes critics accuse Gore of hypocrisy after selling Current TV to Al Jazeera. It highlights his early warnings on climate change and the Oscar winning film An Inconvenient Truth, while questioning carbon offsets tied to a reported $100 million sale to an oil sheik.
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al Gore
Current TV
al Jazeera
Qatar
Gore
Washington
Wall Street Journal
L. Gordon Cravitz
Dawn Loggins Rising From Appalachian Hardship
Dawn Loggins grew up in extreme poverty in Lawndale North Carolina with drug addicted parents and eight schooling moves. A six week Raleigh summer program changed her life as her community rallied to prevent state intervention and she began pursuing a path to self sufficiency despite daunting obstacles.
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Dawn Loggins
Dawn
Ents
Shane
Raleigh
N.C
Lawndale
Appalachian
North Carolina
Doonesbury DEAR DOCTOR K acupuncture for headaches
Acupuncture may help episodic or chronic tension headaches and possibly prevent migraines. Reviews show patients receiving acupuncture alongside standard care report significant relief more often than those without acupuncture, with fewer side effects than some medications. Costs and course length remain downsides.
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Doctor K
United States
New York Times
James Reston
China
Reston
NMMI names Larry Button Sr. as executive director
Larry R Button Sr formerly of Richardson Texas was named executive director of the New Mexico Military Institute Foundation. The announcement came from Maj Gen Gerald Chidress NMMI superintendent Button is a 1968 NMMI graduate and earned a BA in business from Southern Methodist University He and his wife Margaret have three children including Larry Jr who attended NMMI.
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Larry R. Button Sr
Richardson
Texas
New México Military Institute Foundation
Gerald Childress
NMMI
Button
Southern Methodist University
Dallas
Margaret
Larry Jr
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