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No Child Left Behind proposals spark debate
September 21, 2007After a year of public hearings on the No Child Left Behind Act, many education advocates are disappointed because revisions proposed by the House Education and Labor Committee leave the basic complex structure of NCLB unchanged....
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LETTERS: SEPT. 15
September 14, 2007It’s an occupation It’s very tiresome to keep hearing reference to the so-called “war in Iraq” when there isn’t an actual war in Iraq. Instead, following the illegal invasion of that ruined, but still sovereign, country,...
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NATIONAL CLIPS: Sept. 15
September 14, 2007ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.: Students say bring troops home, fund human needs HUNTINGTON, Utah: Coal miners mourned, gov’t inquiries begin CORAL GABLES, Fla.: Dems debate on Spanish TV, GOP bows out WASHINGTON: Civil liberties groups hail two rulings
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James E. Jackson dies
September 7, 2007The staff of the People’s Weekly World was deeply saddened to learn of the death of Dr. James E. Jackson last weekend in New York. Jackson was editor of our predecessor paper, The Worker, during the...
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Film salutes Peggy Lipschutz
September 7, 2007“Never Turning Back: The World of Peggy Lipschutz” is a film about 88-year-old artist and political activist Peggy Lipschutz of Evanston, Ill. Lipschutz and her “chalk talks,” sometimes called “Songs You Can See,” have been part...
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