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...schools, too, the best way to make sure everyone gets to the same place may be to treat them differently. An Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (o.e.c.d.) study showed that, when tested on their math skills, 15-year-old first-generation immigrants score on average more than one grade level behind their native peers - this despite surveys that show immigrants are more enthusiastic about school than nonimmigrants. Part of the reason, says Andreas Schleicher, head of analysis for the o.e.c.d.'s Directorate for Education, is that many countries put their immigrant students through the same system as everyone else...
...pursuit of almost as many goals. Nevertheless, whether it be to find a passion, to explore a profession, to make lasting friendships, or simply to indulge a whim, extracurricular pursuits are an escape from academics, a sphere free from the demands of professors and the pressures of a transcript grade, a sphere in which one can learn self-reliance and life skills that cannot be taught in the ivory tower...
...cuts directly. Bring in the names of the people you want to cut. This is too vague,” he said. The committee is set to make a final decision on the budget in March. Members of the committee also heard an update on kindergarten-through-eighth grade report card reforms given by Deputy Superintendent Carolyn Turk. She explained the strides that a reform committee had taken toward providing a more informative curriculum guide, which will provide parents with a more in-depth look at classroom subjects. The current system, which employs 64 different report cards, would be thinned...
...years in co-ed school were filled with some of the characteristic V-Day scarring. In first grade, the 100th day of school fell on Valentine’s Day and I remember having to put 100 heart stickers on the outside of a brown paper bag under duress. That was horrendous...
...first time, sophisticated refineries are now operating in Afghanistan, making heroin increasingly easy to find - and cheap. Dr. Tariq Suliman, director of Nejat Center, one of only three rehabilitation facilities in the capital, worries about the prevalence of high-grade "crystal" heroin now on the market. "Before, you could only get brown sugar" he says, referring to unrefined heroin that needs to be dissolved in lemon juice, rather than water, in order to be injected. "Now I see patients using crystal. It's not as hard on the body, but it is much more addictive...