By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 1A When war loomed in Iraq, Karen Nelson briefly considered the possibility that one of her three grown sons could face compulsory military service. “But I didn’t think their 53-year-old father would be the one drafted,” she said. He wasn’t drafted, exactly, but former Texas Education Commissioner Jim Nelson […]
Month: September 2003
Column: True dropout rate? It takes calculating
By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 1B Traditionally, Aristotle is given credit for formulating something called the Law of Non-Contradiction. It holds that two contradictory ideas cannot both be true at the same time. As a test case, let’s take a look at the Houston school district: * Houston ISD’s official annual dropout rate is […]
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