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...define the term as the top 3% to 5% of scorers on IQ and other standardized tests. For the smartest of these kids, those who quickly overpower schoolwork that flummoxes peers, skipping a grade isn't about showing off. Rather, according to a new report from the University of Iowa, it can mean the difference between staying in school and dropping out from sheer tedium. "If the work is not challenging for these high-ability kids, they will become invisible," says the lead author of the report, Iowa education professor Nicholas Colangelo. "We will lose them. We already...
...which is not a great showing for the birthplace of American public education. If these districts don’t shape up, their schools could face anything from state interference in their administrative policies to a state takeover. Massachusetts’s performance was fairly standard. Iowa, California and Alabama—states rarely mentioned in the same breath when it comes to education policy—all fell in the same general territory as the Bay State...
...table in front of him clear except for a half-eaten piece of blackberry pie, the well-worn home plate from Iowa's Field of Dreams baseball diamond in the aisle next to his seat, Kerry talked about the race, his opponent, his record and his plans--but not about his doubts, if he has any. "I think we are doing extraordinarily well," he told TIME. "I think this is a close race, and it's going to be a close race. I feel very confident in where we are and confident about the direction of this race...
...absolutely essential that ... we make the right choice because, if we make the wrong choice, then the danger is that we'll get hit again." VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY, campaigning in Iowa, implying that a vote for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry would make another terrorist strike more likely...
...have to admire one thing about Dick Cheney: He?s unabashedly direct. When the Vice President told Iowa voters last week, ?if we make the wrong choice [in this election] then the danger is that we?ll get hit again,? the press gasped and within days Cheney was moderating his remarks. But Cheney was simply saying out loud what Republicans have been arguing subliminally since their convention in New York: President Bush will keep the nation safe, John Kerry cannot be trusted...