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By Kathleen Someah |11.10.2009

Facing the Children, Ignoring Their Future: Obama and Education Reform

During recent months, Obama has drawn fire for his failure to support the continuation of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, a program which provides scholarships to under-privileged children as a means of helping them to attend a school of their parent’s choice. This program, which was enacted in 2004 and has since been a success, ...

By Skyla Freeman |9.10.2009

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Michelle Obama's Keen Fashion Sense Keeps Her In the Public Eye - and Her Opinions Out of It In January, as the Obamas prepared to enter the White House, speculation about Mrs. Obama’s role marked her as a force for change, a Harvard-educated powerhouse reluctant to be hammered into the typical first hostess mold.  Former Nancy ...