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...home-schooled students had median scores typically in the 70th to 80th percentile. But the sample, like previous ones, was overwhelmingly white, Christian, educated and affluent--and not comparable to a control group of public school children. "Given the education level and affluence of the parents," observes Gerald Bracey, an educational analyst in Alexandria, Va., "you could say, 'Gosh, these kids could do better.'" Mitchell Stevens, who is writing Kingdom of Children: Pedagogy and Politics in the Home Schooling Movement for the Princeton University Press, concludes, "At worst, home schoolers are doing as well as the average public school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Home-School Report Card | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...Robert Bracey, a Cambridge city health inspector, said that under city law the Health Department had to be notified of any such leak immediately--but wasn...

Author: By Ali Ahsan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cabot Dining Hall Shut Down By Flooding | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...Bracey wouldn't comment further on the matter except to say that the health department would inspect the dining hall today...

Author: By Ali Ahsan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cabot Dining Hall Shut Down By Flooding | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...good thing that it happened before lunch so they could stay open," Bracey said...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Darst, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Minor Blaze Singes JFK St. Restaurant | 1/29/1998 | See Source »

However, Bob Bracey, a Cambridge health inspector, said that poorly cleaned ducts failed to allow grease to escape, leading to the fire...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Darst, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Minor Blaze Singes JFK St. Restaurant | 1/29/1998 | See Source »

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