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According to their findings, the students who attended private schools scored an average of three points higher on a standardized reading examination and five points higher on a math test than students from similar socioeconomic backgrounds, after three years of attendance in the private schools...
...rationale for the school lies in the fact that studies show that girls, particularly from poor neighborhoods, learn better when boys are not in the classroom. Organizers say that the school will emphasize math and science--two subjects in which girls have often lagged behind boys...
...Young Women's Leadership School should not be a model for the public school system because we should not return to the days when single-sex schools were the rule, not the exception. Nevertheless, as an alternative school designed to improve the generally poor performance of girls in math and the sciences, it deserves a shot...
...added that Logan often wears math T-shirts and plays Scrabble with his shoes off "cause that's how he's most comfortable...
Bennington is the daughter of a math professor with a Greenwich Village apartment and a country house, which makes her choice of after-school job seem even more implausible. She is not so much a hooker with a heart of gold as she is a hooker with nerves of creme brulee. She is comically neurotic--her heels and condoms are always spilling out of her book bag--and prone to ulcers and indigestion. "What's wrong with you?" she asks herself at one point. "Men smile at you on the subway, women ask you what shampoo you use; be happy...