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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Style - Jul 24, 2008
We thought we knew everything about the colorful life of CNN's Larry King: Brooklyn childhood, rags-to-riches career, seven marriages to six women. But there's one secret he managed to keep from all but a few friends …
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Sports - Jul 22, 2008
Phil Mickelson was in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday to testify in front of the House Committee on Education and Labor on behalf of his teaching academy.
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Sunday Outlook - Jul 12, 2008
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings devoted much of her July 8 op-ed, "Save D.C.'s Vouchers," to the benefits afforded to children selected to participate in the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program.
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Education - Jul 5, 2008
U.S. Department of Education employees inappropriately used government credit cards to purchase $49,500 worth of goods and services, including meals, items at clothing stores and rental cars, for personal use …
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Courts, Judiciary - Jul 2, 2008
The eerie quiet on Washington's dinner circuit? All the big talkers have gone to Colorado for this week's Aspen Ideas Festival -- what we call wonk summer camp. "It is an intellectual's Ringling Brothers Barnum and …
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Education - Jul 2, 2008
For many Maryland schools that miss academic targets year after year under the No Child Left Behind law, the stigma associated with needing help will ease under a precedent-setting program the federal government …
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Metro - Jun 16, 2008
Students in the D.C. school voucher program, the first federal initiative to spend taxpayer dollars on private school tuition, generally did no better on reading and math tests after two years than public school peers …
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Metro - Jun 13, 2008
Free tutoring that federal law prescribes to help students at struggling schools has yielded little or no positive effect on student test scores in Virginia, Maryland and several other states, according to early …
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Metro - Jun 9, 2008
NEW ORLEANS The storm that swamped this city three years ago also effectively swept away a public school system with a dismal record and faint prospects of getting better. Before Hurricane Katrina, educator John Alford …
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Business - May 22, 2008
The government yesterday outlined a financial rescue plan for student loan companies, offering to buy federally subsidized loans that lenders such as industry giant Sallie Mae said had become unprofitable.
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