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...reform could have a bigger pay-off at lower cost than holding students accountable for their own achievement. In Massachusetts, high school students must now pass a fairly demanding exam if they are to graduate. Since that regulation came into effect, student performance has shot upward, so that today, Massachusetts leads the nation in the latest measures of school quality...
...head coach Erica Walsh and a inexperienced team that included 11 freshmen. Starting all 17 games for the Crimson, Mann recorded three shutouts and a league-leading 84 saves. One of four goalkeepers invited to the national camp, Mann now has a chance to prove her talent on a bigger stage. Competing just in team scrimmages this week, she has been splitting playing time equally with the three other players at her position. “I’m surrounded by kids who are the best in nation, so it’s going to be great training with...
...bigger problems than a gaffe-prone health minister. The rest of his cabinet is suddenly proving willful to the point of disloyalty, perhaps sensing the Prime Minister's weakness. Last month Abe had to rein in his defense minister twice after Fumio Kyuma first called the American invasion of Iraq a mistake, then later told Japanese reporters that Washington should not be so "bossy" over a planned relocation of a U.S. military base on Japan's Okinawa island. Kyuma's remarks were not welcome in Washington, which has grown accustomed to Tokyo's uncritical alliance, nor were Foreign Minister Taro...
...McCay's ingenuity splashed from content to form and back again. Each huge page could be broken up into six horizontal strips or five vertical ones (showing an elephant getting bigger and scarier as it approaches). The panels might be in wavy shapes, when Nemo, Flip and Imp land in Befuddle Hall and their bodies elasticize into funhouse-mirror images. Or there'd be a large round central image, like the one for Thanksgiving 1905, in which a giant turkey - a kind of poultry Godzilla - uproots Nemo's house with its beak. Thanksgiving two years later expanded upon the dinner...
...spend an average of nine hours online at home each week, according to the AXA survey. That's up from seven hours two years ago and is an hour more than adult nonretirees who, granted, are not at home as much. But this is a far bigger chunk of time than is spent online by the same cohort in countries like Japan (three hours a week) and Spain (two hours). "Search is the sleeper," says Tobey Dichter, CEO of Generations on Line, a nonprofit promoting Internet literacy among older Americans. "The idea of being able to discover your own world...