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...have enough muscle, and the consequences are severe. Although national scores have improved slightly and the racial achievement gap is narrowing in some parts of the country, NCLB fails to accomplish what its proponents said it would. Fourth graders can read in South Carolina but not in Tennessee. Eighth grade test scores are improving, but high school scores are plummeting...
Such an exam would be a content-based, minimum competency test, ensuring that students learn basic skills before exiting each grade. Such an exam adds the benefits of closer student-teacher relationships due to team preparation, and helps to pinpoint the areas in which a student or teacher is underperforming in comparison to their peers across the country...
...scale, the happier they were and the more successful they were likely to be. But that held true only until they hit the top. People who scored a perfect 10 tended to earn less money than slightly less happy folks, and among college students, the 10s had slightly lower grade-point averages and tended to miss more classes than...
...SPORTS ILLUSTRATED), according to the Student Monitor, and TIME.com has a greater proportion of 18-to-34-year-olds in its audience than any of its major news competitors except Yahoo! News and Google News. And don't forget the nearly 4 million children, from kindergarten through seventh grade, who read TIME FOR KIDS. May they all become informed, engaged citizens...
...Claire McCaskill's daughter, to take one newly eligible voter, was all of 2 years old when that happened the first time. The Gingrich revolution came during her pre-K years; impeachment was around second grade. In other words, no matter how many times Hillary Clinton intones the magic word of 2008 - change - it's going to ring a bit hollow, because she is an eternal piece of their mental furniture...