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Letourneau fits that model. She has said she fell in love with Fualaau while working with him on a sixth-grade art project when he was 12 and claims that after a while a sexual relationship just seemed "natural." In a phone call recorded by police, Flannigan's student-lover asked the teacher why she had chosen to have sex with him. She reportedly answered, "I don't know why it happened. I don't know why I love you so much...
...Launched as an evaluation tool in 1998, the Florida Comprehensive Achievement Test, or FCAT, is already being used to grade schools and distribute funds. Now critics like the state's biggest teachers union argue the test is about to be used for another task for which it was never designed. Can test scores accurately rank the physical education teacher whose encouragement prompts a student to improve math scores or the art teacher whose class is the only reason a 17-year-old stays in school, those same critics ask. How, in short, do you financially apportion the contributions of everyone...
...Samsung Digimax Pro815 is for serious shutterbugs. This 8-megapixel "prosumer" camera is just a notch below professional grade. It has a powerful zoom and big 3.5-in. preview screen...
...legally entitled to build reactors and make enriched uranium fuel as a source of energy, as long as it abides by treaty rules and allows the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to monitor what it is doing. Iran has consistently denied that it intends to scale up fuel-grade enriched uranium into the purer weapons-grade component of a bomb. Iranians say they have the same rights as other countries to technology and are just looking out for their long-term energy future...
...makes such sense,” said Maureen Manning, who has two children enrolled in the Cambridge school system and has lived in the city for 28 years. “If you’re trying to reach the kids who are not at grade level, it seems like we have to have the money to do it.” Fowler-Finn said he did not think giving schools more money would improve test scores. “We’ve had that for the last decade and we’re not happy with the results...