Wednesday, Apr. 23, 2008 | The Kojo Nnamdi Show

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Wednesday, Apr. 23, 2008

Graduation & Drop-Out Rates

Education Secretary Margaret Spellings announced a goal of unifying the formula for determining high school graduation and drop-out rates across the United States. This has been a source of tension for years, with many localities accused...

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Beyond Exonerating the Innocent

They're sitting in prisons around the country right now -- people who were wrongly imprisoned for crimes they did not commit. In Virginia, the state's Innocence Commission reviewed eleven cases of people who had been wrongly imprisoned...

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Fat Rights: The Next Civil Rights Frontier?

It is legal for employers and landlords to discriminate against people based on their weight in 49 states. Find out how 'weight' and 'height' came to be included in Michigan's anti-discrimination law, and why advocates say that Fat Rights...

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