America’s first charter school opened in Minnesota in 1992. Sixteen years later, there are 4,128 charter schools educating 1.24 million students in 40 states and the District of Columbia. Another 300 to 400 are expected to open in the coming school year. Charter schools are public schools, but they are very different, says Pete du Pont, chairman of the National Center for Policy Analysis and a former governor of Delaware: The Center for Education Reform’s 2008 Annual Survey reports that responding charter schools are one-third smaller than conventional public schools, with about 348 students, compared with 521. They spend less -- about $7,625 per student, compared with $9,138 in public schools -- and they receive only about 61percent of the per pupil government funding that other public schools receive. They nevertheless offer longer school days, longer school years, often performance--based pay for teachers and more innovative curricula than convention...
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TEENAGERS WITH LIFE SENTENCESFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2007-10-18 06:25:53
Currently, there are 73 Americans serving life sentences for crimes they committed when they were 13 or 14 years old, a number far higher than in Europe, says the New York Times. The differences in the two approaches, legal experts say, are rooted in politics and culture: The European systems emphasize rehabilitation, while the American one stresses individual responsibility and punishment. Corrections professionals and criminologists here and abroad tend to agree that violent crime...
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Post Date: 2007-10-19 06:19:55
Piracy has a harmful impact on U.S. produced copyright products and on the overall U.S. economy. In 2005, piracy conservatively cost motion pictures, sound recordings, business software and entertainment software/vide collectively at least $25.6 billion in lost revenue. Beyond the cost to the copyright industries, this lost revenue translates into lost production of legitimate copyright products, which in turn means lost wages and lost purchases of upstream products and services througho...
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Post Date: 2007-10-19 06:19:54
As globalization transforms the world economy, the World Bank’s comparative advantage for lending to poor countries is gone and its role diminished, says Adam Lerrick, professor of economics at Carnegie Mellon University. There are new competitors without the bank’s social wish list: China, Brazil, India and Russia are funding infrastructure and industry for even the poorest countries, to lock in access to raw materials and export markets. China alone will send $25 billion to ...
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Post Date: 2007-11-09 05:12:58
Despite ample evidence to the contrary, liberal publications have devoted great space and attention to attacking the entire theory that lower tax rates can increase incentives for investment, saving and work, says Stephen Moore, senior economics writer for the Wall Street Journal editorial board. The quality of this discourse rarely rises above the level of trash talk. Nevertheless, some arguments are repeated with such regularity that they need to be addressed. One is that supply-...
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