Word: grades
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...focus on reading. Handling the language arts is perhaps the most fundamental building block to the whole educational program. If you can't read, write, speak and listen, you won't do anything else well." In June, Crim announced that the average student in kindergarten through tenth grade was reading at the national level; math achievement was slightly above the norm. The dropout rate last year was 4% (down from 12% in 1973), and the average daily attendance was 94% (up from 86%). Says Crim proudly: "Our kids voted with their feet. They stayed in school...
...area where rubble spills out of abandoned buildings and youths loiter in empty lots. When Alvarado, son of Puerto Rican immigrants, was assigned to District Four in 1973, it ranked dead last among the city's 32 districts on reading test scores: only 18.5% of students read at grade level or above. Last year the district ranked 15th in the city, and 48.5% of its students were up to par in reading. Alvarado's success was due in part to his ability to attract bright and dedicated teachers and his willingness to take risks with new programs. Says...
...boarded up. Benton Harbor's students had scored 40% below the statewide average for the past five years. Two years ago, with solid support in the community, Superintendent James Hawkins began a program that requires every student to master basic minimal skills before being promoted to the next grade...
...second-graders, but 15% of first-and second-graders have been kept back. Hawkins is unapologetic. Says he: "Retention is not necessarily destructive to self-image. If you really want to see trauma, go to a high school and see a twelfth-grader reading at fourth-grade level. That's trauma...
...drawn to them like electrons to a cathode-ray tube. Of all the remedies prescribed for the ailing schools, none has generated more excitement than the call for large numbers of desktop computers. This fall 86% of all high schools, 77% of all junior highs and 61% of all grade schools have at least one machine, according to Market Data Retrieval Inc., a Connecticut research firm. But the rush to hardware looks very much like a nationwide case of putting the CRT before the horse. No one has stopped to resolve the basic issue, says David Moursund, professor of computer...