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...best of the new releases at the domestic box office. Its $21.8 million edged The Bounty Hunter's $21 million, according to official studio estimates. With a teacher's-pet A-minus in CinemaScore's poll of exiting moviegoers, the comedy about a bright boy's passage through sixth grade should prove best in class for youngsters over the next few weeks and do well enough to green-light a sequel. (Kinney has published four books in the series, with a fifth due out this year.) (See the top 10 movie wimps...
...making sure they are ready for college or a career. In other words, he wants to make sure a high school diploma means students actually have the skills they need to compete in an increasingly global workforce. Obama would define school success by how much improvement students make from grade to grade, no matter where they started, as opposed to the current system, in which schools are judged on students' absolute performance, not their progress. Obama's model is similar to the one we pioneered three years ago here in New York City, where we give schools...
...Obama Administration is trying to remove NCLB's "perverse incentives," as Education Secretary Arne Duncan has termed them, and measure school performance against a new yardstick: improvement among individual students. "NCLB says that a fifth-grade teacher who helps a student reading at a second-grade level reach a fourth-grade level within one year has missed their goal," Duncan said in a statement unveiling the proposal. "In fact, that teacher is an excellent teacher and should be applauded...
...daughter is in eighth grade, 13 going on 14. Her primary social interactions are through texting,” Jody had said...
...suggest that the tendency to eat more may not only be driven by the fact that food is cheaper and more available, but by a change in the bacteria in the intestines," he says. "People may be eating too much because their appetite is stronger due to a low-grade inflammation they have, which could be due to changes in their gut bacteria relative to what their grandparents or someone else might have had 50 years...