“We’re trying to create an equitable testing environment for all students.” – Laura Wilson – founder of Graph It Forward Today SAT, ACT…Standardized Exams determine whether and where you go to college and, in many cases, what kind of future you will have. Increasingly it seems that kids from upper class families – families that can afford…
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“If you are the moderator of a big debate, I think you want to open quizzing the biggest candidate on what is the topic that most people are talking about – the most incendiary topic there is.” – Ellis Henican “You should not do what (John) King did when Newt attacked him. It made King look…
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“GOP presidential race offers entertainment”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, January 22, 2012 It’s been an unexpected gift this election season, the Republican romp for president—a thrill for those who enjoy the theater, an adrenaline pump for those who love a fight. Tell me, who among the Final Four couldn’t have been cast in a ’60s…
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“I am sick and tired of politicians moaning about the questions they are asked by the media. That is the last refuge of of the weakling politician.” – Ellis Henican “Nobody performs the complaining with any more vigor than Sarah Palin. Her entire time on the national political stage has been one…
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“I’ve enjoyed being on the high road. With people talking about candidate’s divorces and ex-boyfriends – I’m concerned about foreign policy and trade deficits and those sort of things.” – Ellis Henican The candidate attacks are taking their toll on the Republican race—Mitt Romney’s money in the Cayman Islands, Newt Gingrich’s ex-wife talking to…
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“Do you think it’s a total coincidence that the one percenters are taxed at such a low rate?” – Ellis Henican Mitt Romney, whose networth is about a quarter of a billion dollars, revealed that his tax rate is around 15 percent—highlighting the tax advantages enjoyed by wealthy Americans who make most of their money from…
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“Conservatives used to be good at politics. But, this year, they’ve been completely skunked by this moderate guy from Massachusetts that, frankly, most of them don’t like or trust very much.” – Ellis Henican Rick Santorum, trailing Mitt Romney in the polls, got an endorsement he terms “a very big deal.” With the South…
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“Samantha Garvey’s story a brilliant one”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, January 15, 2012 How do you not like this story? Samantha Garvey, a senior at Brentwood High School, is named a semifinalist in the national Intel Science Talent Search. No dis on the 299 other semifinalists across the country, 60 of them on Long Island,…
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