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...usual culprit along this stretch of road is the kangaroo. "The roos breed up something phenomenal," says Eucla mechanic Rodney Fowler, who regularly tows broken-down vehicles across the Nullarbor. "Trucks bowl them over all the time, and a few cars as well. And they just keep on coming and they don't thin out." But a roo isn't to blame this morning, nor is low oil or water. Written across the Kenworth's chassis is the motto without trucking australia stops, but into the last quarter of their 40-hour trip, Schneider and Bryson must simply...
...city folk to shame. As well as an industrious roadhouse, police station, meteorological office and quarantine center, the 50-resident village is a hub for shark fishing and starling shooting (the bird is considered a pest in Western Australia). "We're either sleeping or working," says local mechanic Rodney Fowler, 60, proudly wearing his eucla spirit of the desert windcheater...
Test scores did decline in some subgroups between 2004 and 2005, as Nolan says, and overall ELA test scores declined by one point. Fowler-Finn attributes this to the fact that the state changed its tests between 2004 and 2005, and notes that the entire state’s average also declined by one point...
There is no doubt that during Fowler-Finn’s tenure, test scores have risen—by three points in ELA and by five points in math. There is also no doubt that they are still below the state average. And finally, there is no doubt that the administrative marks have improved substantially...
...Fowler-Finn has compared the Cambridge Public Schools to an “ocean liner” in trying to highlight the difficulties in changing the system’s course. Nolan has argued that the system is small—with only one high school—and that it can be “turned around on a dime...