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...committee also heard a brief presentation on school Internet policy by director of management services James Conry. Beginning on Jan. 1, 1998, all students above the fifth grade will be entitled to individual accounts through their schools. The Tobin, Agassiz, Longfellow and Morse elementary schools are currently connected to the Internet. Although Cambridge does not have a filter program to censor inappropriate material from the World Wide Web, the committee agreed to study the issue at a later date...
...Nukes: Al Gore has signed an historic deal ending U.S.-Russian production of weapons-grade plutonium (TIME Daily...
...Senate approval for the nuclear test-ban treaty he signed a year ago ? and touted at the U.N. on Monday ? Al Gore is having better luck. He and his friend of four years, the Russian prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, signed an historic deal Tuesday halting the production of weapons-grade plutonium ? the next step, say negotiators, toward a less nuclear world...
...national-test advocates is the defection of their supposed friends on the left. Liberal critics assert that the math test will stigmatize poor and minority students who don't perform well. They fret that schools will use national-exam results in determining who to promote to the next grade. And they even complain that the reading test discriminates against students who don't read English. Feelings run so strong in the House that virtually all members of the left-leaning black and Hispanic caucuses plan to vote against the tests this week. "If national testing went down in flames," says...
...exams will look like. And so everyone is anxious. Critics charge that the committees drafting the exams are using them to promote faddish pedagogies like "whole language" and "fuzzy math." Last month a disgruntled group of teachers and academics penned a letter to the President contending that the eighth-grade math test isn't tough enough in measuring basic computational skills. On the other side, the Cambridge-based watchdog group FairTest opposes the exams, executive director Laura Barrett says, for focusing on "rote memorization rather than creative problem solving...