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What is the benefit of repeating a grade to a slow learner or a child with a learning disability? You can't successfully use standardized tests for individuals with different learning styles and disabilities. I'd like to see government types in the classroom for a year. I bet they would then have a different perspective. KAREN J. HARRELL Beaufort...
...Raynaldo Ramos. The nine-year-old immigrated a few years ago from Mexico. No English was spoken in his troubled and poor home, and his limited language skills made for low grades. But last fall, six student tutors from the U.C. Irvine English program came to his fourth-grade classroom. The teacher, Marisol Duarte, saw only subtle changes at first. But two months later, when the kids wrote their final poems of the term, Raynaldo's reading had jumped from first- to third-grade level. And his poem had the glow of a prayer: "...the beauty of the hand...
...worst way to tackle the problem would be to blame the technology itself. But the way that technology is put to use does deserve a more critical look, and not the unabashed enthusiasm everything e-related receives now. Before we rush to wire every classroom to the Internet, before we give our business to amazon.com instead of the local book store, before we pack our bags and bid au revoir to the real world, we eventually need to decide whether the cost of the convenience, in terms of human interaction, might be too great...
Outside the classroom, summer school students can take trips to outlet mecca Freeport, Maine, as well as beach outings to Newport, R. I., Martha's Vineyard and Provincetown. The summer school will also offer trips to historic spots in Boston...
Maldacena said he said he has not decided whathe will do with the prize money. After taking aleave this past spring, the question of spendinganother semester out of the classroom is also upin...