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The Progress Report,
Center for American Progress
December 23, 2003

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THE PROGRESS REPORT
Center for American Progress

Naughty & Nice 2003
The Progress Report makes this year's holiday list and checks it twice

by David Sirota, Christy Harvey and Judd Legum

Look for a special Year-End Progress Report December 30. And make your New Year's Resolution to read the Progress Report every day, when regular editions return January 5, 2004

December 23, 2003

Education
NICE - Author David Eggers: For parlaying his fame from his best-selling work, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, into the phenomenal "826 Valencia" project in which "Eggers and about 400 volunteers teach writing and comics creation, run workshops on SAT preparation and help kids launch student publications. They deploy 20 to 30 tutors at a time into classrooms at the request of teachers for one-on-one work on student writing." Eggers has also been one of the leaders in pushing the Bush Administration to preserve AmeriCorps.

NAUGHTY - Texas School Board: For rejecting a "widely used" environmental text book, in part for claiming there was scientific consensus for global warming and championing solar energy. The board threw out the formal review of the book, relying instead on a report by the ultraconservative Texas Public Policy Foundation, saying the author's claim that air travel has "an increasingly high environmental cost...makes Osama Bin Laden into a hero of sorts for discouraging air travel in the United States and elsewhere."

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