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No Child Left Behind Act: history, impact, and controversy

The article summarizes the history of the "No Child Left Behind" act (NCLB), its original intent, support from the Bush administration and Senator Edward Kennedy, the bill's impact on improving education standards, its slide into discontent among teachers, and, finally, President Obama's stance on…

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How mobile technology is fragmenting modern family life

Both authors believe technology has changed the family, and not always in the best ways.

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Perfectionism and leadership: lessons from a robot competition failure

George Bernard Shaw stated that: "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing." Tell us about one of your glorious mistakes. What was your intent? What went wrong? What did you learn from the experience?

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Courage, commitment, and citizenship in public life

Benjamin Disraeli once stated that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

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Russell Crowe's Oscar-winning performance as Maximus in Gladiator

Although in hot competition with several other superb actors for the Academy Award for Best Actor, Australian actor Russell Crowe certainly deserved the Oscar for his amazing performance as Maximus, the main protagonist in director Ridley Scott's Gladiator, released in 2000 to worldwide acclaim for…

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Capital One's strategic positioning in the post-financial crisis banking landscape

The past two and a half years have been unquestionably volatile and even dangerous for the banking and financial industries, and Capital one was not entirely spared form this adversity.

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The history and development of fiber optic communication technology

The science of fiber optics centers on the transmission of information via light through transparent fibers. This paper explores the history of fiber optics. Included in the discussion is an overview of how fiber optics is used for communication and data transfer.

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Entertainment media's exploitation and destruction of Britney Spears' public image

The entertainment industry's public fan base has created an entertainment media monster that is today less concerned with talent than it is about building images that it can then destroy with sensationalism and innuendo.

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Contract lifecycle management in supply chain partnerships

Contracts throughout supply chains are essential on a variety of levels for the partnerships and resulting network of buyers to succeed in attaining their shared objectives. First, contracts define and in fact quantify performance expectations (Rosenberg, 2007).

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Discovering human potential through education and self-discipline

Human potential, though not always apparent, is there waiting to be discovered and invited forth. Recently, I read a story about a grandmother who learned to swim when she was sixty years old -- and joined her local YWCA's senior synchronized swimming team!

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