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...curriculum, asking parents to vote on an academic focus for each of the schools. At one writing, communication and technology school, for example, students keep a daily journal starting in kindergarten; at a math and science school, students study botany in a state-of-the-art outdoor classroom. To reach the most disengaged parents, the district mounted a full-scale media blitz, postering walls from the city health department to K Mart and taking flyers door to door. The individual schools sent home mass mailings and bought competing ads in the local paper. The district even promised free rides...
George Bush--all three generations of him--wants to woo Hispanic voters. Scarcely a week goes by when the Texas Governor--George W.--isn't hola-ing and comos estas-ing his way through a Hispanic community center or a classroom filled with Hispanic children. And late last week in New York City, his campaign released its first television ads of the general election--ads starring GEORGE P. BUSH, the candidate's charismatic 23-year-old Mexican-American nephew, in a direct pitch to New York's Puerto Rican voting bloc. The star turn will not be his last...
...grades results in a more valid decision," says Walt Haney, a senior research associate at Boston College's Center for the Study of Testing. "The clear solution is to reduce the stakes." Such wisdom is swaying some politicians. Conceding that some tests have begun "to crowd out all other [classroom] endeavors," President Clinton this spring said testing is due for a "mid-course review." And on Capitol Hill, Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone proposed legislation that would penalize states financially for using exams as the sole measure of a student...
...want a glimpse of the boomer future that you'll never see in the ads for Brighton Gardens or MapleRidge (knowingly ironic boomer question: Where do they come up with these names?), travel instead to Rochester, Minn., and the Mayo Clinic. In Dr. Darryl Chutka's classroom, the 10 first-year medical students look a little different from what you might expect. They're all wearing goggles coated in a clear film, ear plugs, heavy rubber gloves, extra-thick socks. They also have marshmallows stuffed in their mouths, corn kernels scattered inside their shoes, stiff, confining braces around their necks...
...Illingworth '71 is named a new associate dean of Harvard College. Illingworth assumes the overall responsibility for student extracurricular affairs and other aspects of student life while Associate Deans Thomas A. Dingman '67 and Georgene B. Herschbach wll focus on athletics, advising and health services and finance, technology and classroom space, respectively...