Word: fourths
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...simple, sound-bite toughness. It appeals to parents and teachers at a time when frustration with student underachievement is boiling over. Distressing test results released this spring in states like Louisiana (where 40% of eighth-graders flunked the state's exam in math) and New York (where 40% of fourth-graders flunked a new state exam in reading) have only strengthened the cause...
...without the skills needed to progress much further. At Doolittle East in Chicago, Alfred Rembert taught a sixth-grade class this year in which all the students were repeating the grade. Half of them were promoted in January. Rembert spent most of this semester preparing the remainder for a fourth try on the Iowas. "All this focus on reading and math for the test means they are getting less of the other subjects," he says. As a result, school systems like Chicago's may see short-term test-score gains--in part because a chunk of students are taking similar...
...those who liberated a segment of humanity that had been fenced in by prejudice. Jackie Robinson broke the color line in baseball; Helen Keller demolished old notions about the blind and deaf; and Harvey Milk dared to put himself on the ballot as an openly gay candidate. On his fourth...
...Harvard women's water polo team finished its season with a strong record (21-12, 8-3 Ivy) and by capturing fourth place at the Eastern Regional Tournament, a lone goal away from placing in the top three and thereby qualifying for NCAAs...
...eventual fourth-place finish was upsetting," Hodge added, "But I know that we all came away from that weekend feeling really proud of ourselves. We certainly earned the respect and admiration of many of the other teams and coaches...