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...points higher than 59 percent for the state. Simmons said that the district should track students’ success after high school before lauding the graduation rate. Additionally, the tendency to evaluate progress by scores and to “teach to the test” is a concern of parents who consider leaving the public school system. “I feel the teachers are under incredible pressure in terms of the amount of testing they have to administer from the state as well as the district,” said Risa Lavelle, a parent of three, who said...
...authorities evidently believe there is cause for concern. In recent weeks Beijing announced it had foiled a separatist plot by Uighurs to kidnap athletes at the Olympics, and made scores of other arrests. But increased pressure may have already backfired. Residents and activist groups outside China say that since Mutallip's death, Khotan and surrounding areas have been roiled by protests involving a few dozen to nearly a thousand demonstrators. "The demonstrations are indicative of the widespread dissent in Xinjiang's Uighur community and how quickly that dissent can become explosive with only a little agitation," Elizabeth Van Wie Davis...
...devout Catholics crowd the new Washington Nationals Stadium this morning for a Holy Mass led by Pope Benedict XVI, animal protection is not likely to be on their minds. Amid the great questions of war, justice, and life, animals might also appear a humble concern for the leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics. But the Pope himself has suggested that the issue of animal protection is far from irrelevant to the Catholic faith...
...trapped on a desert island, who would you want to be with?US: That’s a tough question. I mean, I’d say Wolfgang Puck, ’cause like that man would make the food on the island. [Food] would be my primary concern and I’m quite confident he could whip up some amazing coconut dishes.Tony J. Sterle ’11RR: Who do you play in “Castaways”?TS: I play the character Brandon. He’s a student at Harvard who goes on this vacation...
...realm of politics. Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, a senior Republican who recently visited Syria, last week publicly suggested that the U.N. inquiry into Hariri's killing could be reduced in scope in exchange for greater security and political cooperation from Damascus in key areas of U.S. concern. Specter said he had been told by King Abdullah of Jordan that "the item that is most on the mind of President Bashar Assad is the action of the international tribunal which could lead to his indictment." But Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice quickly slapped down Specter's proposal...