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Un programa educativo clave creado bajo la Ley Que Ningún Niño Se Quede Atrás de George W. Bush no ha rendido resultados, según el estudio reciente del Instituto de Ciencias Educativas, organismo investigativo del Departamento de Educación norteamericano. El estudio concluye que no hay diferencias entre el grado de comprensión de textos escritos mostrado por estudiantes que participaban en el programa “Leer Primero” [Reading First] y por los que no participaron en el programa.

CHICAGO – Dirigiendo su atención a las elecciones generales de noviembre, la campaña presidencial de Barack Obama empezó una campaña masiva de inscripción de votantes en todos los 50 estados de la unión americana el 10 de mayo.

Shot in the collarbone on his fourth day of duty in Iraq, Tomas Young is the focus of this documentary by Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro.

Every four years the Olympic games bring together athletes from all corners of the world to compete in the planet’s biggest international multi-sports tournament. This year’s Summer Olympic games are scheduled to kick off in August in Beijing. The next Winter Olympics will be held in Vancouver, Canada, in 2010. Currently 203 countries participate in the Olympics, more than the 193 countries belonging to the United Nations.

Feelings about the state of Israel occupy a broad spectrum of world opinion, from adoring admiration in some quarters to hate veering into outright anti-Semitism from some others. As an expression of the 19th- and 20th-century Jewish national emancipation movement, Israel has achieved what its founders dreamed of — a country like any other, with all the attributes, positive and negative.

I was arrested this month.

Stand with veterans

The tragedy of Reading First: more than corruption

Solidarity tours

Dental care is a necessity

This Memorial Day, we think about the more than 4,000 U.S. soldiers dead and the tens of thousands wounded in body and mind in a war based on lies, pushed by a clique of right-wing militarists and their corporate backers.

If Marx and Engels were around today, listening to the corporate media pundits on cable and in print, they might have started their Manifesto with, “A specter is haunting the U.S. 2008 elections — the specter of communism.” All of a sudden these folks have discovered the working class. Talk about the disappearing middle class.

ST. LOUIS — Over the last few months one of the most important electoral struggles of 2008 played out in Missouri. The deceptively-named Missouri Civil Rights Initiative (MoCRI), which would have outlawed affirmative action programs here was blocked May 4 because petitions to get the measure on the ballot were not submitted.