Online NewsHour: Report | Schools Find Loophole in Law | August 14, 2007 | PBS: "JIM LEHRER: Now, the first of three reports on the impacts of the federal No child Left Behind law. Tonight, special correspondent for education John Merrow examines how some schools are dealing with, and trying to avoid, requirements of the law."
Broken Spring? : Information Clearing House This is a sequel to my June 2011 article, ‘After the spring’, on the upheavals in the Arab world. It is an article that has been painful to write, because it brings bad tidings and offers a pessimistic analysis of the upheavals, at least in the short term, in a number of Arab countries. The outcomes and potential outcomes of these uprisings have also acquired new, very significant dimensions. These include a complex entanglement with the accelerated preparations for a possible attack on Iran, and a poisonous, sectarian aspect that could have the consequence of ripping Syria and the Middle East apart.
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