March 20, 2009

Focusing on Education, White House Touts Perkins Loans for Middle Class

By MEGAN ECKSTEIN

President Obama and his secretary of education put education and research in the limelight last week with a flurry of executive action and speechmaking.

Over three consecutive days, the president reversed his predecessor's policy restricting experimentation with human embryonic stem cells, delivered a major speech in which he advocated better tracking of students' progress and told colleges they needed to control costs, and signed a $410-billion spending bill for this year that

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