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Arizona scrutinizes the annual financial audits of charter schools, but pays less heed to what goes on in the classroom. Paramount, for instance, has drawn no special attention for its schizophrenic test scores. In some areas close to 70% of students met or exceeded state standards last year; on the eighth-grade math exam, none did. In April, Kristen Jordison of the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools made a routine visit to Paramount Academy on a day when all but kindergarten classes were suspended for testing. On the basis of that visit, Jordison said the school "seemed...
...rebel, you might want to heed the advice of Susan McHale, a professor of human development at Penn State University, who says parents can minimize the "handicap" of close spacing by carefully preparing the older child for the birth of the younger (don't promise an instant playmate); by teaching the children to empathize with one another in the preschool years; by helping them play without competing throughout childhood; and by continuing to spend time with the two of them--together--even after they reach adolescence...
HIGH BOUNCER Before signing a bad check, take heed: nonsufficient-funds (NSF) fees continue to rise as banks pursue profits. In the past six months, the average bank fee for bouncing a check was up 2.4%, from $23.87 to $24.45. That's on top of NSF fees you may have to dish out to an angry retailer. Consider overdraft protection: though most banks charge a small fee for it, customers with several accounts may get it free...
...President Neil L. Rudenstine’s administration. Though not formally involved in organizing the committee, President-elect Lawrence H. Summers should take the committee’s recommendations seriously. Its report will be non-binding, as should be expected, but for the administration to take heed the committee’s deliberations must be viewed as more than a mere exercise in counting heads...
Protesters charge that the report is inadequate, and contend that the University has failed to heed its own recommendations...