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Government Assistance Programs Aid Underprivileged Communities In New York State
Daily Video February 14 2013

Chicago Early Education Program Aims to Close Achievement Gap
Children who grow up in middle class and educated households tend to absorb more vocabulary than th…
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Daily Video February 13 2013

Schooling Suffers on Palm Oil Plantations
The rising global demand for palm oil has made it Malaysia's most profitable crop, bringing in $25 …
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Daily Video February 12 2013

Can Teachers Prevent Dropouts?
In Chicago, 23 of the school district's high schools have taken an unconventional approach to incre…
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Post February 12 2013

President Obama Delivers State of the Union
Every year, the president speaks to a rare joint session of Congress with all 100 senators and 435 …
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Post February 07 2013

Leaked Memo Justifies Killing Americans with Drones
A secret Justice Department document revealed this week outlines legal arguments for using drone ai…
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Daily Video February 06 2013

Orchestra Makes Art out of Conflict
While the Israeli-Palestinian peace process seems to be stalled for the foreseeable future, some of…
Air Pollution In Beijing
Post February 04 2013

Beijing Reacts to Record Smog Cloud
China is the world’s fastest growing major economy, but the resulting pollution from factories and …
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Student Voices January 30 2013

An Insider's Take on the State of the Union
The State of the Union address is a grand tradition in American politics, when all the government e…
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Post January 10 2013

2012 Officially Warmest Year on Record
If you felt like you had to turn the air conditioner up extra high this past year, you weren’t just…
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Post January 02 2013

Taxes on Rich Rise with Fiscal Cliff Deal
Congress and President Obama did not have much of a winter break as they scrambled to come up with …
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