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Fast forward to Sunday and take a jump to frigid, snow-covered St. Louis. UCLA, which was seeded eighth at the beginning of the tournament, was playing neighboring University of California at Santa Barbara, for the title...
...didn’t learn until I was in college” during their final presentations.Graduate students from the Kennedy School of Government are leading an apprenticeship this semester, teaching students to run mock campaigns. This fall, a team from the Graduate School of Design (GSD) is also guiding eighth-graders in drafting designs to present at the City-Wide Design Showcase at GSD on Monday. ON THE RIGHT TRACK Schanfield says that Citizen Schools focuses on the middle school age group because it is a critical time during a child’s educational life, despite being largely neglected...
...Chinese immigrants who came to America to complete their masters degrees. While Wang characterizes them as pretty hands-off, they encouraged her in to get a 4.0 in school and sent her to SAT prep, which she took as a part of her supplementary Chinese-language school in the eighth grade and then culminated in a Princeton Review course the summer before her junior year...
...Illinois, a Kafkaesque series of computer glitches, printing and labeling mistakes and human error by the testing company and state education officials have prevented schools from determining whether they made adequate yearly progress on reading and math exams taken by third through eighth graders last spring. Montana officials, by contrast, argue that their tardy score reporting was in fact planned. Regardless, the delays means that students in both states are unable to know officially whether they are eligible for free tutoring or to transfer to another school if they attend a failing school, as mandated under the reform law. While...
...aligned to our standards prior to No Child Left Behind, so we we've had to build our tests from scratch," said Joe Lamson, communications director for the Montana Office of Public Instruction. Because 2006 was the first testing year that required assessments for every grade from third through eighth, Montana set a generous mid-January deadline to process its results. In 2005, only students in fourth, eighth and 10th were tested, so the state easily got its scores in by late August. "We wanted to give ourselves extra time this year to get all of our scoring calibrated properly...