In D.C. Public Schools (DCPS), four-year high school graduation rates rose from 53 percent in 2011 to 64 percent in 2015. AP participation rates increased from 17 percent in 2011 to 24 percent in 2015. DCPS enrollment increased by 3,462 students from the 2011–12 school year to the 2015–16 school year. These reforms were a
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The Iran war has brought cyber warfare to the front of political discussion specifically on critical infrastructure. Water and wastewater systems across a minimum of 12 states in the United States have recently reported cyberattacks. Reports point to a hacker group linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Local government institutions are targeted because these
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Over 1 million Venezuelans have migrated to the United States due to the political crisis which has been ongoing since Hugo Chavez took power in 1999. Of these immigrants over 26,000 live in the Washington metropolitan area. The United States is not Venezuela. However, there are lessons that can be drawn from Venezuela in the
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What is the definition of the American Dream? The clash of liberalism and conservatism met at its finest debate at Cambridge University in 1965. That’s when James Baldwin and William F. Buckley argued over whether or not the American Dream had been achieved at the expense of the American Negro. Liberal vs Conservative Baldwin discussed
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A couple of summers ago, my mom, my brother, and I were eating lunch and talking about climate change, probably because of the floods we’d seen hit Senegal, where we used to live, or the dramatic rainfall patterns in Panama, where we were living at the time. In that conversation, a question stuck with me:
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Washington called it a victory. Six months later, Venezuela is unstable, Cuba is in a humanitarian crisis, Iran is devastated, and American credibility is in freefall. Is this what winning looks like? Since Nicolás Maduro’s capture on January 3rd, Venezuela has reached a seven-year high of oil exports, adding up to an estimated $8 billion.
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