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Dropout rates are falling, but still no cause for celebration

As part of the push for greater accountability in schools, states are now required to report on graduation rates in a more rigorous way.

TIME

A greener revolution aligns diet and land in Malawi

Malawi has celebrated in recent years as the scene of a modest green revolution. Corn harvests are up but many believe that farmers in Malawi and all over Africa need to look beyond corn.

NPR

Obama, GOP leadership square off

Obama is framing the meeting with incoming GOP leadership as the first step toward a new and productive relationship.

CBS News

Special section:

Who’s who at ‘Slurpee Summit’

MSNBC

Jake Tapper on the White House Summit

ABC News

WikiLeaks release ‘shows China thinking on Korea’

Officials in China have expressed frustration with communist ally North Korea, according to leaked classified U.S. diplomatic cables.

BBC

Role of free press weighed in wake of State Department leaks

USA TODAY

EU launches antitrust probe into alleged Google abuses

The European Commission has launched an investigation into Google after other search engines complained that the firm had abused its dominant position.

BBC

NATION

Last unemployment check is in the mail

Many jobless have already filed their last claim for benefits since lawmakers aren’t moving to extend the deadline anytime soon.

CNNMoney

Hurricanes steered clear of US in 2010

For the first time in recorded history, 12 hurricanes formed in the Atlantic basin without a single one making landfall in the United States, according to experts at Colorado State University.

USA TODAY

Why did hurricanes spare the US this year?

Houston Chronicle

Read this: Buy new street signs

Federal Highway Administration is ordering local governments to buy new street signs that they say are easier to read.

ABC News

POLITICS

President Obama and GOP leaders finally to meet

It won’t be the relaxed working session President Barack Obama wanted, but the White House still hopes that delayed and abbreviated summit with Republicans will start to bridge the bipartisan divide.

Politico

Obama, congressional leaders to tackle issues in ‘Slurpee summit’

CNN

President Obama to meet congressional leaders

Reuters

A final push to repeal ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’

The fate of the 17-year-old law known as “don‘t ask, don’t tell,” which bars openly gay Americans from serving in the military, is expected to be decided before Congress goes home prior to year’s end.

NPR

ENVIRONMENT

Officials aim for small wins in climate talks

Officials from 200 countries are meeting in Mexico to attempt one of history’s greatest repair jobs: the mending of the world’s project to cope with climate change.

Nature

Empowering women and saving the environment

Newsweek

Are we too clean?

A new study from the University of Michigan School of Public Health suggests our quest to be clean and infection free could be negatively affecting our health.

Earth Times

The world: 4 degrees warmer

As science shows our planet could warm by as much as four degrees, researchers predict what problems that could cause.

Discovery News

EDUCATION

Education reform: Have business-savvy officials improved big-city schools?

Mayors of big cities have been turning to leaders from the business world to push their agenda of education reform. Critics say schools need leadership from educators.

Christian Science Monitor

School effort aims to engage parents

Much of the talk around educational reform has focused on the role teachers play in students’ lives, all but ignoring another big player: parents.

Denver Post

HEALTH

Eating disorders rising in young children

Among children younger than 12 with eating disorders, hospitalizations surged 119 percent between 1999 and 2006. That’s according to government data contained in an American Academy of Pediatrics report.

MSNBC

Parents put fat babies on diets

ABC News

Painkiller may prevent skin cancer

Preliminary research suggests that the painkiller celecoxib (Celebrex) may help prevent nonmelanoma skin cancers, researchers reported.

MedPage Today

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Muslim orphans caught between Islamic, Western law

Islam has a guardianship system called kafalah that resembles foster care, yet has no exact counterpart in Western law.

USA TODAY

Turkey gives orphanage to Ecumenical Patriarchate

The spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians was given back the deed to a historic building in a move hailed as a symbolic but important victory for the formerly dominant church in Turkey.

San Francisco Chronicle

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Daniel Indiviglio):

Promoting US fiscal responsibility, responsibly

The Atlantic

Column (Katrina Trinko):

Create jobs by bringing in immigrants

USA TODAY

Blog (John Horgan):

Why psychotherapies never get better

(Scientific American)

Cross-check

Column (Todd Woody):

Sunsetting of federal cash grant darkens solar industry’s prospects

Grist

Column (Matt Lewis):

Liz Cheney blames George Bush for North Korea situation

PoliticsDaily.com

Blog (Cathy Lynn Grossman):

‘Take Back Yoga’ campaign: back where?

(USA TODAY)

Faith & Reason

Column (Chris Hedges):

Hope, real hope, is about doing something

Truthdig

Column (Patty Fisher):

Brighten the holidays for a foster child

San Jose Mercury News

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GOOD NEWS

Holiday giving expected to surpass $48B, study forecasts

Charities that can appeal to the emotions and those that make pitches in lots of ways will fare the best, according to a survey released by Convio, the fundraising software company.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Sacramento leads green job growth

Clean-tech companies in California’s Sacramento region now employ more workers than the local agricultural sector, underscoring the importance of the industry’s role to the area’s economy.

McClatchy Newspapers

Buffalo Bills owner Wilson donates $1M to NY adult care

The Kaleida Health Foundation announced a $1 million donation by Ralph and Mary Wilson through the Ralph C. Wilson Foundation to support adult day care and home care in Western New York.

NFL.com

WORLD

No more tolerance, says South Korean leader