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Boosting achievement in math and reading is a big factor in the drive to reshape schools in Philadelphia, where reform has come from the top down. A 2002 study found that eighth-graders at the city's K-8 schools typically score 50 points higher on state tests than peers who attend middle schools. Under Paul Vallas, the energetic CEO of Philadelphia's schools, the district is pruning the number of middle schools from 46 in 2003 to eight by 2008, while upping K-8s from 10 to 120. "I haven't seen anything to support the creation of middle...
...surprisingly, many students say that cost is not a factor in their decision to attend...
Evans’ team concluded that more incidences of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among Kuwaitis who remained in their home country during the occupation were an important contributing factor to the high mortality rate...
Although getting a high grade was not Reardon’s motivating factor in taking the course, he calls the potential to boost his GPA “an added bonus...
...India has its eyes firmly fixed on the future. Everywhere there is a profound hope that its rising international status will somehow compensate for a past often perceived as one long succession of invasions and defeats by foreign powers. Perhaps there is also a cultural factor in this striking neglect of the past: as one conservationist recently told me, "You must understand that we Hindus burn our dead." Whatever the reasons, future generations will look back at New Delhi's conservation failures with deep sadness at all that has been lost...