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WashingtonPost Top Stories, 15.03.10 20:39 UTC

Changes to No Child Left Behind would affect schools differently

For most public schools, the perceived heavy hand of the federal government would become a lighter touch under President Obama's plan to rewrite the No Child Left Behind law. But for others, the ...

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Seattle Times, 15.03.10 20:18 UTC

AG sees promising change toward open government

Attorney General Eric Holder vowed Monday to pursue a government-wide strategy to open greater amounts of information to the public.

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NPR, 15.03.10 15:56 UTC

Scientists Stunned By Stem Cell Irony

A bitter irony has befallen researchers who use federal money to study stem cells from human embryos. Some of the old, dependable stem cells that were OK to study with federal funds under the Bush ...

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CNN Top Stories, 15.03.10 14:46 UTC

'No Child' may be overhauled

Washington (CNN) -- The Obama administration plans to send a wide-ranging overhaul of the No Child Left Behind education law to Congress on Monday, arguing that the current legislation has pushed ...

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Seattle Times, 15.03.10 12:04 UTC

Duncan: More than math, reading important

President Barack Obama's proposal to overhaul education standards championed by his predecessor aims to broaden the focus beyond math and reading to "a well-rounded education," Education Secretary Arne Duncan says.

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WashingtonPost Technology, 15.03.10 06:28 UTC

Embryonic stem cell research stalled despite Obama's try at lifting restrictions

One year after President Obama announced he was lifting his predecessor's controversial restrictions on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research, some scientists are complaining that so ...

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 14.03.10 05:46 UTC

Obama promise: Brighter education futures for kids Obama redoing 'No Child'

Broad overhaul proposed for education law

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USA Today, 13.03.10 19:56 UTC

Duncan wants 3 ratings for schools in education overhaul

WASHINGTON The Obama administration will ask Congress to toss out the two-tiered pass/fail school rating system of the No Child Left Behind education law and replace it with one that labels schools one of three ways: high-performing, needs improvement or chronically low-performing, according to U.S. Education Secretary

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Seattle Times, 13.03.10 12:46 UTC

US avoids anti-abortion debate at UN meeting

A U.N. meeting to assess progress in advancing the fight for women's equality that ended Friday had a dramatically different slant than a similar session held five years ago: This time, the United States was not trying to make an anti-abortion declaration a crucial theme.

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Newsweek World News, 13.03.10 03:35 UTC

Zakaria: We're Winning in Pakistan

President Obama gets much credit for changing America's image in the worldâhe was probably awarded the Nobel Prize for doing so. But if you asked even devoted fans to cite a specific foreign-policy ...

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