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Education Strategies for Reducing Juvenile Crime in the Nation’s Capital For every five black boys between age 10 and 17 in the District of Columbia last year, three would not graduate high school on time. One was officially truant from school. And one was arrested as a juvenile.
Libertad de la Educacion: School Choice Solutions for Closing the Latino Achievement Gap Cavernous achievement gaps between Latino children in the United States and their white peers have not only persisted through the past decade, but have barely shown any signs of improving. For the two in five Latino eighth graders who score "below basic" on standardized tests, the odds against earning a high school diploma are steep. And if present trends hold, only 11 out of every 100 Latino kindergartners in the United States will complete a bachelor's degree.
Back To The Future — The Perils Of Insourcing Faced with the need to control the costs and improve the performance of its logistics and sustainment system, the Department of Defense has pursued a deliberate strategy of . . .
Smart Grid Implementation: Strategies for Success The United States is well underway with the modernization of its energy grid, driven by $4.5 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grants and other Congressional legislation. Smart Grid needs to be implemented quickly enough to provide optimal value improving delivery and reliability, and also contribute to the nation’s energy security by tapping more domestic and renewable providers.
European Aircraft Subsidies: A Study Of Unfair Trade Practices The United States historically has been the dominant supplier of commercial transports -- airliners -- to the global market. As recently as 20 years ago, Boeing and other U.S. companies controlled 85% . . .
Countering The Asymmetric Threat From Sea Mines Sea mines have long posed a threat to the operations of U.S. sea-based forces. Since World War II, sea mines have damaged four times the number of U.S. naval vessels as all . . .
Statehood for Puerto Rico and the Potential Fiscal Impact of Official Bilingualism for the United States Recent developments have advanced the likelihood that voters in Puerto Rico may soon vote on a sequence of ballot initiatives that could result in the granting of statehood status. Should Puerto Rico . . .
The Teaching of American History: Promise and Performance The appalling results of de-emphasizing the study of U.S. history in elementary and secondary schools have become painfully obvious in recent years.
Charter Schools and Changing Neighborhoods: Hispanics and English Learners in Chicago Chicago’s Limited English Proficient (LEP) and Hispanic students will play a major role in determining the city’s economic future. Unfortunately, these two critical groups have remained among the lowest-performing in the Chicago Public Schools where current strategies for improvement have shown scant signs of reversing current trends.
Hugonomics: Venezuela’s fight against poverty, and against the private sector Hugo Chavez was elected President of Venezuela in 1998 and has proceeded to lead and symbolize a new variant of the Latin American political left. His Bolivarian Revolution and his push toward socialism ...
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