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What happened at these schools was a mystery to no one. Blacks and Hispanics generally do not do as well as whites and Asian Americans on law boards or have high grade-point averages, both factors which law schools--in the absence of other criteria, such as race--give enormous weight. "We foresaw this," says Michael Sharlot, dean of the U.T. law school, adding that "one has to distinguish between a surprise and a tragedy. We warned the Texas legislature about this. It's a disaster...
...offset by tax increases -- and in France, taxes are the highest in Europe -- they are going to run up huge deficits. If they do that, and if the rules are strictly adhered to by all the partners, the French are going to have a lot of trouble making the grade." Sancton notes that the recent difficulties other EU member nations have had in meeting the standards may allow for a looser interpretation of the rules, which could give France wiggle room. "The rules for inclusion are being rethought by everybody right now, because they are all realizing that the effort...
...takes a more rigorous approach than most to "alternative certification," which is sometimes just "a fancy name for emergency licensing," says Karen Zumwalt, dean of Columbia University's Teachers College. CITE offers a two-year program for those who choose teaching as a second career. Carolyn Toney, a fifth-grade intern at Vine, is a former research scientist for Procter & Gamble. She decided to enroll in CITE after her two children graduated from college. Toney spent one year taking education classes and substitute teaching. Now, in her second year, she is teaching fifth-graders, with the help of Luebbe...
Before her fourth-grade class on the Monday after her Friday disappointment, Tracy Robinson loads the manipulatives--the little bars of different colors, each representing a different fraction--into plastic bags. When her students walk in, she distributes the bags. The book she was reading from on Friday is nowhere in evidence. She asks her pupils to use the bars to construct flat, box-shaped designs on their desks. Three of one color, they soon discover, will fill the same space as four of another. When each child has a mosaic on his or her desk, Robinson begins the verbal...
...hands-on approach worked that day in a fourth-grade class at Vine Elementary. The same method seems to be working in Cincinnati...