My Life So Far (1999)

Washington has a school delusion
My May 23 column argued that the Obama administration’s goal of having every child graduate from college was out of touch with reality and did a disservice to a great many of our students. I took that position because anywhere from one-sixth to one-half of elementary and secondary students are too far down the bell curve to reasonably be expected to succeed in college.
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My Life So Far $2.00 If pretty pictures and sweet intentions were enough to generate a classic family film, My Life So Far would rival How Green Was My Valley and George Cukor's Little Women. But those movies have strength and an acute sense of loss along with the sweetness and light, while--despite a death or two and the teasing prospect of adultery--My Life So Far doesn't really engage anything that would dis...

Charlie Rose with Fouad Ajami, Robin Wright & Shaul Bakhash; Andrew Cuomo; David Puttnam (July 14, 1999) $24.95 A conversation about the ongoing student protests in Iran and President Mohammad Khatami's leadership with Robin Wright of The Los Angeles Times, Shaul Bakhash of George Mason University, and Fouad Ajami of U.S. News & World Report. The, an interview with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Andrew Cuomo, on the Clinton administration's efforts to reduce poverty. Last, film producer Lor...

The Story of My Life (So Far) $2.47 In 1971, ten-year-old Charlie Foran handed in a Grade Five writing project called The Story of My Life (so far). In this revised and expanded version of that early effort, award-winning author Charles Foran relates the story of his boyhood, told from a boy's perspective. Dropped squarely into the soul and psyche of a child -- a creature absorbed with nicknames and swear words, God and sin, girls i...

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