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Beyond saving money, Bobb sees his mission in broader terms: to improve the system's miserable academic performance. Again, the situation is dire. Last month brought news that more than three-quarters of the 900 eighth-graders who took a national math exam scored at "below basic" levels. In October 2008, some 57% of Detroit third- through eighth-graders essentially failed a state writing test. Detroit's graduation rate is 58%. "The system is academically bankrupt. This is almost academic homicide," Bobb says. (See pictures of a public boarding school...
...have passed to be promoted to the next grade. He has shuffled dozens of principals, often from relatively high-performing schools to less than stellar ones, and he may extend the school day. In the next 18 months, he wants significant gains in the percentage of fourth- and eighth-graders who perform at grade level in math and reading. By 2015, he wants 90% of all students to complete at least one Advanced Placement course before graduating. "Those are very ambitious goals," he admits. And ultimately they may be hindered by politics: Detroit's elected school board charges...
Colorado finished the 2009 season tied for the eighth and final playoff spot, but lost out on tiebreakers to the eventual champion, Real Salt Lake...
...property markets are a growing piece of the Chinese economy. The total value of property sales in 2009 - $644 billion - equals one-eighth of the total GDP for the year. That growing reliance is not only hard to cut back on, but it creates a further risk, adds Xie. "The Chinese economy is so dependent on property, but property is not a productive asset. It doesn't have a long-term benefit for the country's economic production...
...moves Harvard into eighth place in the ECAC as it prepares to travel to league-leading Union on Friday...