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...million on 110,000 children for a per-pupil total of $5,873, just shy of Maryland's statewide average. Yet the money produced a student body that failed to meet the most rudimentary state standards, as measured in a battery of tests that gauge functional skills in reading, math, writing and citizenship. The system's interim CEO, Robert Schiller, has called the city's schools "academically bankrupt." Within the district many administrators and teachers blame this failure on the fact that Baltimore, despite the extra costs of running an urban school system, spends less money per pupil than surrounding...
...case you don't want to do the math, that's five rushes for 66 yards. On Harvard's next possession, which opened up the fourth quarter, Menick ran seven times and scored his second touchdown on a one-yard option left...
...schooltime to teach children to be polite, but politeness is more important than your IQ. It is better to be a B-average student with great manners than an A+ student who is a big wise guy. If all second-graders learned politeness and kindness just as they learn math and science, America would be a much more civilized society in 25 years. CHRISTINE DEVLIN, age 11 Brookline, Mass...
...future: half of the nation's 2.5 million teachers in the public schools alone are expected to retire or resign in the next ten to fifteen years. With the increasingly diverse student population, minority teaching candidates are especially in demand, as well as bilingual teachers, and teachers of science, math, and special education...
...Friday morning about 10 a.m. I found my office in a big mess," said Ian C. Dowker, a third-year graduate student who is a teaching fellow for Math 1b this semester...