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For this school year, the Dallas (TX) public school district made a controversial decision to revise classroom grading rules in an effort to create a uniform grading policy.

In one of her columns, Michelle Singletary, financial columnist for The Washington Post, addresses the lack of motivation for Americans to save money:

A new analysis of the habits and attitudes about saving in America found that most people know they're not saving as much as they should.

The family circumstances of the GOP VP nominee have raised the issue of sex education and whether it should focus on abstinence or be more comprehensive.

A New York Times article asks the question, "Who Are We?" in addressing a new dialogue on mixed race—a subject that has been debated more frequently as a result of Sen.

A Washington Post article describes some of the hurdles Sen. Obama faces in expanding the Black vote:

For many of these disengaged people, racial solidarity with Obama does not automatically trump apathy or despair.

Why does it take the U.S. two years and multimillions of dollars to elect a president?

Why isn't education a bigger political issue in the presidential campaign?

According to CNN, a report published by the Black AIDS Institute, an HIV/AIDS think tank, states that the AIDS epidemic among African Americans in some parts of the U.S.

In an Op-Ed piece, Huntsville (AL) Times columnist and radio talk show host David Person asks the question: Is "struggle" still the best way to describe the Black experience?

Obama, Fields and other black politicians are winning over whites by embracing a quest for unity and understanding rooted in dialogue and accountability. In the process, however, they have placed themselves on a collision course with some black folks who continue to view white society and the U.S.

A USA Today Op-Ed piece took the American Association of University Women (AAUW) to task over its study entitled Where the Girls Are, which infers that "boy troubles" in education are a myth and, if not, the gap between male and female students is limited to poor and minority children. The paper took the view:

The facts show that gender gaps start to emerge in elementary school and widen in middle school. As for the contention that the gaps are a function of race and income, not gender, that