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By Stuart Warner - AOL News(Nov. 20) - For the second time this year, school administrators have rebuked the award-winning student newspaper at a suburban Chicago high school named for free-speech champion, one-time journalist and former U.N. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson. The faculty review board at Stevenson High in Lincolnshire, Ill., killed Friday's edition of the Statesman over an article containing anonymous quotes from honor students admitting to smoking and drinking. "The advisers gave the student editors an option of holding the article ... so it could be more thoroughly reported," the school said in a ...
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By Linda Kulman - Politics DailyEducation Secretary Arne Duncan believes we have what amounts to a "once-in-a-couple-of-generations opportunity" to "push a very, very strong reform agenda" for the nation's schools. His view is based, in part, on the Obama administration's intention to spend billions of additional dollars on public education, though Duncan acknowledges that money alone is not the answer. He also says the country has arrived at a moment when we have the necessary political will to make tough changes. ...
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