Word: charter
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Moreover, the market-in the form of charter schools-has already proven itself to be ill-suited to the needs of education. Charter schools, an innovation imported from England several years ago, encourages individuals with a plan for an experimental school to apply for funding directly from the state without prior approval from local officials. The New Republic has chronicled the disaster of the charter schools over the past year or so. We have read of an Afrocentric high school in Washington, D.C. that threw a white journalist out of the school, hurling epithets. Elsewhere, a charter school is established...
...Manhattan or a boarding school in New Hampshire? Not quite. This is the Young Women's Leadership School, and it is a public school in East Harlem. Opened last year in an effort to boost girls' confidence and to provide a supportive and challenging academic environment, the experimental charter school on 106th Street should be reveling in its success. The school admitted 55 seventh-grade girls for the year 1996-97 and it re-opened its doors this September to 165 girls in the seventh through the ninth grades...
...experts agree that American public schools badly need tougher--and higher--national standards. National testing would enable parents and schools from Cambridge, Mass., to Compton, Calif., to measure an individual student's performance against a common yardstick. A well-executed national testing system might also ease the transition to charter schooling and public-school choice by providing a standard method of assessing different schools' strengths. In a TIME/CNN poll last week, a majority of adults surveyed said they support the President's testing plan...
...Carrington Colby? Or had time to care? Till she was 14, Jewel Kilcher grew up in an unelectrified log cabin on an 800-acre homestead near Homer, Alaska. Her father Atz Kilcher was a folk singer, the son of a Swiss immigrant to Alaska who helped write the state charter (Grandpa Kilcher still tools around occasionally in his horse and buggy in Homer, scaring the residents). Her mother Nedra Carroll also sang and dabbled in other crafts. When Jewel was eight, her parents divorced, and her mother left for Anchorage. Jewel remained with her father, who made a living singing...
DIED. MOHAMMED FADHIL JAMALI, 94, Iraqi Prime Minister who signed the United Nations charter; in Tunis. A moderate in Iran's immoderate 1958 revolution, he just escaped the hangman's noose on his way to eventual exile in Tunisia...