Graduation news
Several items of note related to high school graduation: Yesterday, the Texas House of Representatives initially approved the elimination of the 22-year-old requirement that high school graduates pass a state exam. The state senate’s proposal would replace the generic achievement tests with end-of-course exams. The House proposal faces another vote today. (My personal prediction: whether […]
Iran arrests Haleh Esfandiari
Human Rights Watch is reporting the detention of the head of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’s Middle East program. She went to Iran to visit her mother and had her passports robbed shortly before she was to return, subjected to questioning when she asked for replacement travel documents, and then arrested a week […]