Word: iowa
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...impeccable attendance record at Doolittle East middle school in Chicago. But a little over a year ago she faltered at crunch time, and she has paid a stinging price ever since. In the spring of 1998 Walker scored well below her grade level on the reading section of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills. Chicago's widely hailed policy aimed at ending social promotion--the practice of automatically passing students to the next grade--required her to attend summer school. At the end of it she fell short again, which meant she had to repeat eighth grade. She watched...
...doesn't feel real because afterwards I don't think that my life is going to change that much," says the senior from Iowa City, Iowa, who recently received a Rockefeller Fellowship to support a year in Southeast Asia...
Cambridge may be a long way from Iowa, but he says he had little problem adjusting to life at Harvard...
...over the past four years, Tobacman has become so well-adjusted that he prefers Cambridge to the "delightful safety" of Iowa City where he worries of growing "complacent...
...think it's unlikely that I will live in Iowa for a substantial portion of my life," he says, noting that it's very likely he will be back in Cambridge for graduate school. "I expect that the people who excite me most will be in other places...