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More Democrats call for Biden to drop out
The latest news in US politics, with coverage of Joe Biden and the Democrats, Donald Trump and the Republicans plus daily updates about the 2024 US election.
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A shock election result in France puts the left in the lead
For President Emmanuel Macron, who called this election against the advice of his close allies, the result will come as ...
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Efforts to teach character bring promise and perils
In April the OECD—an outfit that for years has carried out international tests in maths, reading and science—published data purporting to show which of a dozen or so character traits best predict ...
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England’s school reforms are earning fans abroad
O n paper, Mercia School in the north of England is a forbidding and unfashionable place. Teachers focus unrelentingly on “the acquisition of knowledge”, if its intimidating w ...
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America’s giant armsmakers are being outgunned
ARMSMAKING IS NOT like other businesses. It is impervious to macroeconomics and sheltered from fickle consumer tastes. Its ...
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Schools in rich countries are making poor progress
Even before the covid-19 pandemic ejected millions of children from their classrooms, schools across America were stuck in a rut. For 50 years the country has tracked pupils’ performance in maths and ...
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The rich world’s teachers are increasingly morose
In a secondary school on the outskirts of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, a pupil scrawls the solutions to mathematical equations on a whiteboard. His teacher, a young woman, stands at the back ...
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Will artificial intelligence transform school?
“Books will soon be obsolete in schools,” opined Thomas Edison in 1913. He believed the motion picture would replace texts and teachers as means of instruction, and that it would happen within a ...
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Who might Donald Trump pick as his running-mate?
DONALD TRUMP has been teasing his choice of running-mate for months. Like contestants on “The Apprentice”, the reality show ...
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Joe Biden’s ABC interview will not quell doubts about his future
THE PRESIDENT was tanned, rested and largely coherent during a high-pressure prime-time interview with ABC News on July 5th.
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A reformer wanting a nuclear deal with America wins Iran’s election
THE CRY for change could hardly be clearer. In the presidential election on July 5th, 16.4m Iranians voted for Masoud Pezeshkian, a reform-minded heart surgeon who wants talks with the West and women ...
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How shallow was Labour’s victory in the British election?
THE LABOUR PARTY, led by Sir Keir Starmer, scored a resounding victory in Britain’s general election on July 4th. Its majority is the largest won by any government since 1997. The party flipped seats ...