Word: beached
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Wearing black swim goggles and a pink and white bathing cap, Jiang took Waikiki Beach swimmers by surprise as he led his party into the surf and swam the breaststroke for an hour...
...students who attend the Stanford Middle School in the Los Altos neighborhood of Long Beach, Calif., 34% are Hispanic, 22% Asian, 23% Caucasian, 17% African American, 3% Filipino and 2% either Pacific Islander or Native American. More than 75% qualify for the free or reduced-cost lunch program, thus enabling Stanford to receive federal funding under Title I. Because the district allows parents to choose their children's schools, only about one-third of the students reside in the neighborhood; the others arrive on 16 buses. When Stanford's rainbow coalition gets off those buses, it is a vision...
Four years ago, the Long Beach Unified School District, the third largest in California, decided to change over to "standards-based" education and to initiate a mandatory school-uniform policy. At the same time, Stanford principal Judi Gutierrez embarked on a program to restructure and reform her school. She created schools within the school, one for each of the three grades, with a "learning director" heading a core group of teachers. She allowed the students to pick their own mottoes--in the sixth grade, it's "Begin the Journey...Stride into Excellence." Gutierrez also stressed staff development, sending teachers...
...Reported by Deborah Edler Brown/Long Beach, Emily Mitchell/Minneapolis and Megan Rutherford and Rebecca Winters/New York City
...from a Pixies reunion concert 25 years from now. "Gigantic" has Kim Deal wailing at about half the speed of the original recording, and the effect is about half as inspiring. The Pixies are a thinking person's "alternative;" lyrics are acrostic or contain the first theramin since the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations." Their concerts, from their beginnings in Boston, often included over 40 songs in a set. It's not so much that's they're ultra-prolific, but to take only a handful of their already short songs and call it representative does a great disservice to their...