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...have observed that plenty of children get left behind. The needs of students with no hope of passing proficiency tests and those who will certainly pass are largely ignored. Pity the poor child who just barely fails. He is prodded with extra tutoring morning, noon and night in the hope that his scores will cross into the light. As a 33-year veteran music teacher, I also notice how the arts and other subjects are sometimes disregarded. We are short-changing the multiple intelligences that our children possess...
Number of extra U.S. troops that were ordered to Baghdad and surrounding areas as part of the operation to try to restore order to central Iraq; they began arriving in February...
...showed Reeves had only spent $11,000 of his travel budget, not the full allotment as the Chronicle previously reported. Chronicle Editor David Harris says that the error “was because [Reeves] never returned our phone calls, and we relied on the fact that he requested this extra money. We acknowledge... that he hadn’t blown through the budget...
...include everything somewhere, we wound up with an eight-course requirement. A tautly drawn six, pushing some fields together and omitting others, would have been better: In the new system, students may have less curricular freedom than ever. Our years of weak leadership will translate into thousands of extra course requirements for each entering class...
...through fields and back roads in pursuit of police-protester interaction Wednesday, is not at all unhappy about the G-8. It has brought a palpable increase in funds to his home town: the roads are newly paved and the buildings replastered and painted. Even the protesters bring extra cash. The supermarket near one of the massive camps housing around 5,000 protesters extended its hours to accommodate the surge in demand for food and drinks...