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...third-grader in Seoul who, like many eight-year-olds around the world, is nuts about Pokémon. But unlike most kids, he's conflicted. He knows the popular animated characters come from Japan. He has also learned in school how Japanese soldiers brutally invaded and colonized his homeland back in 1910. After his mother reminded him that every Pocket Monster sold helped Japan get richer, Doo Dam successfully resisted buying any Pokémon cards. "Japan is bad," he says. "No one nation should be above another nation...
...story "Girlhoods Interrupted," which ran with our article on school shootings [SOCIETY, March 19], said Pennsylvania eighth-grader Elizabeth Catherine Bush was "the first female school shooter in nearly three decades." We stand corrected. On Sept. 18, 1991, a 15-year-old high school girl in Crosby, Texas, shot and killed a 17-year-old football team captain in the school cafeteria...
...awash in a sea of guns. Williams' father had eight of them. The father of Elizabeth Burns, the eighth-grader who shot a classmate in Williamsport, Pa., had 12 guns. Add to this the fact that we are a culture that has abrogated decent parenting and is addicted to violent media trash. The consequence is tragedies waiting to happen. RUTH ROSEN Santa Monica, Calif...
...relatively rigorous test known as the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). This dilution of such accountability, which was a central part of Bush's platform during the presidential campaign, comes as the latest round of NAEP reading scores, released Friday, showed the average American fourth grader is reading no better than eight years ago, and, even more worrisome, that that there has been no improvement in the gap between whites and blacks, whites and Hispanics, rich and poor...
...second grader might...