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...will be conferring again with the deans and others later today to assess the situation and discuss what today's events may imply for Harvard activities scheduled for tomorrow. Further information will be available through the Harvard home page (www.harvard.edu) or by calling 496-NEWS...
...will be conferring again with the Deans and others later today to assess the situation and discuss what today's events may imply for Harvard activities scheduled for tomorrow. Further information will be available through the Harvard home page (www.harvard.edu) or by calling 496-NEWS...
...average home schooler scored in the 75th percentile on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills; the 50th percentile marked the national average. But not all home schoolers take standardized tests, and one suspects the better students are the ones volunteering to do so. It's also difficult to assess how a child who is home schooled would have done in a traditional school. Because of the paucity of research, no one can say much more than this: home schooling seems to require the same formula for success as parenting, which is to say, it can work when the parents...
...sure that'll be the case. They'll claim the weather as an excuse. But in fact, this is what ought to be done: Put the operation on hold until next May. Do a serious professional expert brainstorming to assess the situation. Use the winter to prepare, and then raise the Kursk and try to give honest answers to all the painful questions. Instead, they're going ahead with this rigmarole, wasting so much money...
...lawmakers trying to assess, and fund, schools, the messiest question of all is disarmingly simple: What is a failing school? Given all the stories we hear of kids who don't have books - and wouldn't know how to read them if they did - it shouldn't be so difficult to pluck out the scores of schools that don't pass muster. But what about the thousands more where students may not all be excelling but where teachers work with the meagerest of resources and, with a little encouragement, just might turn the corner? In other words...