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California has a promising approach. Four years ago, the California State University system began booting students who did not complete their remedial work within a year. Last year 2,277 students were told they couldn't re-enroll unless they completed remedial classes elsewhere. But Cal State is also making sure that high schoolers know about the tough policy long before they arrive. The system is spending $9 million to send its professors and students into the 172 high schools that graduate most of Cal State's remedial kids. The visitors tutor pupils in the basics and carefully explain what...
Harvard hopes to apply the lessons learned at this week’s tournament in next week’s Cal-Berkeley Invitational...
...Virgin Suicides was a triumph of strange suburban melancholy. It marked Eugenides as a novelist of voluptuous gifts. Middlesex is a sign he's not sure what to do with them. The narrator, Cal, is a hermaphrodite raised by unsuspecting parents as a girl, until puberty forces him (her?) to opt for manhood. But before Cal can tell his own intricate story, we get hundreds of pages about his parents and grandparents (who are brother and sister; it's a complicated clan), the burning of Smyrna, the Detroit riots of 1967 and the Greek-American embrace of the beckoning American...
...Huskies have been on a slide, without a win in their last three competitions after starting out the season with three straight victories. Washington was unable to convert on 24 shots on goal in their last outing, a 1-1 tie with Cal State Fullerton...
Shoe marketers trying to reach trendsetting young urban males have discovered a fact long known by any weary eighth-grade teacher: guys love a troublemaker. Celebrity endorsers typically have been squeaky-clean family men like Cal Ripken Jr. or harmless rebels like long-haired Andre Agassi. But today's sneaker ads often showcase figures known as much for alleged misdeeds as for their accomplishments. When a company attaches its brand to these antiheroes, "it's a way of saying, 'We're in touch with somebody who is street real,'" says Rick Burton, professor of sports marketing at the University...