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...next grade--has a simple, sound-bite toughness. It appeals to parents and teachers at a time when frustration with student underachievement is boiling over. Distressing test results released this spring in states like Louisiana (where 40% of eighth-graders flunked the state's exam in math) and New York (where 40% of fourth-graders flunked a new state exam in reading) have only strengthened the cause...
...within four years. In Texas, G.O.P. presidential favorite George W. Bush made the ending of social promotion the centerpiece of his much praised education agenda. His state legislature is expected to approve a bill this month that will require third-graders, beginning in 2003, to pass state reading and math tests before being promoted. Four other states approved similar measures last year. Urban districts such as Boston, Philadelphia and Seattle have vowed their own crackdowns. In New York City, 50,000 failing students in the third, fifth and eighth grades may be retained if they don't pass tests...
Robert Winters, a Harvard math preceptor with an interest in local politics, says that these two long-serving politicians--Duehay has been on the council for 28 years, Russell for 14, and both have served as mayor at one time or another--form the spiritual backbone of city government...
Academically, Goff originally intended to study math and physics, but he decided that mathematical questions were not the ones he wanted to be answering. ("I didn't want to be the black math/science guy," he quips.) Instead, he enrolled in a graduate seminar with Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West '74 as a first-year, and after dabbling in gender studies, found his place as an Afro-American studies concentrator. He will head to Stanford next year to begin a Ph.D. in social psychology...
Michael Taylor, president of the non-profitcommunity group Boston 2000, says he hopes tofoster a working relationship between Boston'smedical professionals and the city's public schoolteachers to "be better prepared to teach [scienceand math] in an engaging...