For 20 years, the Chicago Public Schools have tried it all. High-stakes tests, decentralization, ending social promotion, shuttering failing schools and opening new ones. And through it all, reading scores in the city's weakest elementary schools largely haven't budged, an exhaustive ... Read more...
JP Morgan (JPM) is the largest processor of food stamp benefits in the United States. JP Morgan has contracted to provide food stamp debit cards in 26 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. JP Morgan is paid for each case that it handles, so that means that the more Americans that go on food ... Read more...
Watching fast-paced cartoons like SpongeBob SquarePants leaves young children significantly less able to perform challenging tasks than those who watch more sedate TV, a new American study has found. The American Academy of Paediatrics compared sixty 4-year-old children, split into three groups f... Read more...
Mumia Abu Jamal - The World Weeps As the U.S. performed its semi-religious rites in memory of 9/11, it does so with little real question of why 9/11 happened--at least among average Americans. For they have been ill-served by the media, primary educational systems and... Read more...