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ARMY: Kwasniak 1-8 2-2 5; Crawford 9-12 0-2 19; Johnson 9-14 0-1 12; Clark 4-10 0-0 10; Pearson 2-4 0-0 4; Gurash 1-3 0-0 3; Anderson 0-0 0-0 0; Barrett 1-9 1-2 3; McFarland 0-0 0-0 0; Westfield 1-2 1-2 3; TOTALS...
...book's press notes, Andrea Barrett, whose National Book Award-winning collection of short stories Ship Fever is good enough that she should have known better, compares Old Scores to the famous story of the ill-fated lovers Abelard and Heloise. The parallel between the two stories is obvious--both are tales of ill-fated love affairs between teacher and student--but the comparison is specious. The passion between Abelard and Heloise has inspired great literature and art for eight centuries, but the passion between Beth Sieverdsen and Paul Ballard is just a rip-off of their love...
...path to the main-stream created by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. The Bosstones, however, made the leap while still maintaining a high standard of instrumentation, song writing and vocals. On Willis, Steve Jackson, the singer for the Pietasters, all too often comes off as a poor man's Dicky Barrett. While Barrett of the Bosstones can pull off a scratchy, cigarette-tarnished voice, Jackson instills a pain rarely felt. Not since Biz Markie crooning, "Just a Friend," has there been a more shrill and annoying voice. It's a shame, too, for Jackson overpowers the superb effort...
...fuzzy math." Last month a disgruntled group of teachers and academics penned a letter to the President contending that the eighth-grade math test isn't tough enough in measuring basic computational skills. On the other side, the Cambridge-based watchdog group FairTest opposes the exams, executive director Laura Barrett says, for focusing on "rote memorization rather than creative problem solving...
...provides reliable state-by-state performance data--but not the scores of individual students. For that, many public schools use privately developed exams, such as the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills and the Stanford Achievement Test. "American school kids take more than 100 million standardized tests each year," says Barrett. "We already know what schools and which children perform well or poorly." Asks Boston College professor George F. Madaus: "How is this going to be any different from a first-class test from a commercial publishing company?" (One difference: a higher price tag. The department estimates the tests will cost...