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...traditionally below the mean. Between 1972 and 1981, the percentage of scores in the 600 to 800 range has declined. For verbal scores, the decline has been from 11.4% to 7%. For math scores, it has been from 17.8% to 5%. Instead of trying to establish a higher maximum standard, our educational system is directed solely toward raising the minimum--an emphasis the back-to-basic drive will only underscore...
EDUCATION REFORM must instead focus on both minimum and maximum standards--there is no reason to emphasize only one. Needless to say, such a two-pronged approach would be more costly. But while educators previously had to choose between the two goals because of limited funds. Americans are now willing to pay for real reforms. The majority of citizens cited in the Timessurvey said they would support a two hundred dollar tax increase if the money went to education. Potentially at least, resources do exist...
...researchers studied a group of more than 1,100 East Boston schoolchildren, testing their lung capacity--the maximum amount of air a person can exhale in one second--once a year...
...halted before a well-guarded gate. "This is Maidenek," Dmitri Kudriavtsev said. I saw a huge, not unattractive, temporary city. There were about 200 trim, grey green barracks, systematically spaced for maximum light, air and sunshine. There were winding roads and patches of vegetables and flowers. I had to blink twice to take in the jarring realities: the 14 machine-gun turrets jutting into the so-blue sky; the 12-ft.-high double rows of electrically charged barbed wire; the kennels which once housed hundreds of gaunt, man-eating dogs...
...rally's organizers actively discouraged violence, and most of the demonstrators followed their lead. Police were under orders to exercise "maximum tolerance" and made a show of displaying empty holsters (though eyewitnesses saw some officers with revolvers tucked in their belts). Initially, the confrontation with the small groups of young militants seeking a "dialogue" was good-natured, but it did not last. As the first barrages of stones were hurled, the students advanced toward the bridge. Police retaliated with a rain of homemade "pillboxes" (small foil packets containing gunpowder and nails). But the students succeeded in setting fire...