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This editorial I read was called, "Mr Obama and No Child Left Behind" it focused on how the No Child Left Behind is still not doing what it was meant to, and the ways President Obama wants to change it. Obama wants to focus federal sanctions and monitoring on the schools that are failing which will aloow better-run schools more flexibility to fix themselves. The editorial takes on the position that this plan makes a lot of sense as long as the better schools are not allowed to, "shortchange poor and minority children." Under No child left behind, a school needs improvement if they miss progress targets, and to fix this Obama wants  to create a system in which schools recieve credit for improving student performance, which the authors of the editorial believe is good, as long as a significant reward is being rewarded. If this plan is adopted by Congress, states would need to make a system in which teachers and principals would be rated based on students' performance.

The editorial also takes a look at what NO Child Left behind's overall impact has been, and federal data shows that schools with a majority of minority children are still disproportionally taught by inexperienced teachers. I think that Obama's plan could work, as long as children are not shortchanged and the proper schools are rewarded.


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The overarching theme is that, "companies that sell food to the public have the big responsibility to ensure that their products are safe to eat" which I definatly agree. Already they are not using real/ 100% chicken, the least they can do is allow one to eat their fake chicken without getting injured.

Good luck Mr. Sutton!

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This editorial, was about President Obama's new plan for the 5 states, Nevada, California, Arizona, Florida, and Michigan who are dealing with the most foreclosures and have the highest percent of unemployed people in their states. The plan calls for money to be fed into that would be developed and carried out by the housing agencies in these states. Many people in the states believe that this is very necessary for them, but a lot of analysers feel that it will not be enough to fix the situation at hand.

I agree, the unemployed need help, and Obama is going in the right direction. We just need to find the right way to help them. I think that working with the banks, along with providing the unemployed with jobs will be the perfect solution to this problem. I guess time will tell....


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This editorial was about the assassination of the Hamas Military leader, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. He was found dead in a hotel in Dubai on January 20, 2010. People have been trying to link the assasination to Israel, but so far out of the 26 people suspected, none of them have anything to do with Israel. As The Washington Times points out, "There is no reason to mourn al-Mabhouh" he has been a terrorist for a very long time, and he recently been suspected of being the link between Hams and the Iranian Revolutionary Gaurd Corps.  The editorial also points out the American view on the whole situation. In 1976 assasination was outlawed by President Ford, and there has always been questions on how the ban is to be used in terrorist situations. Had al-Mabhouh been the leader of Al-Queda, the US Government, would be throwing a party.

I definatly agree with the editorial in that al-Mabhouh had to go. Wheras many people do not think that lack of a leader will make a change in a terrorist group, I believe it will. Just like a gang, many of the terrorists in this group, rely on their leader as they would their fathers. Terrorism will not be a eliminated completly, but there will be a slight decrease on the Hamas spectrum.

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