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...boys in the classroom and to privilege boys' views over those of girls is further indication of the potential benefit of single-sex education for girls. And in terms of comparable services for both sexes, the findings of a number of researchers have shown that boys do not perform better without girls in the classroom, whereas girls show marked improvements in all-female learning environments...
...Knight was persistent. Two years later, according to internal Molten documents, Knight began working on ways to court Molten's largest potential customer in Mexico--the state-owned oil company, Pemex. To prove it could do the work, Molten set out to perform a "feasibility" plan. And to engage Mexico's top environmental officials, it asked U.S. Ambassador Jim Jones, an old Gore ally in Congress, to hold a luncheon at his Mexico City residence. One corporate E-mail to Knight thanked him for "helping us" with Jones and a U.S. agency that granted Molten $280,000 to help finance...
What's more maddening to national-test advocates is the defection of their supposed friends on the left. Liberal critics assert that the math test will stigmatize poor and minority students who don't perform well. They fret that schools will use national-exam results in determining who to promote to the next grade. And they even complain that the reading test discriminates against students who don't read English. Feelings run so strong in the House that virtually all members of the left-leaning black and Hispanic caucuses plan to vote against the tests this week. "If national testing...
Others are questioning whether the country needs new national exams at all. A federally monitored examination already exists: the 28-year-old National Assessment of Educational Progress, a test that provides reliable state-by-state performance data--but not the scores of individual students. For that, many public schools use privately developed exams, such as the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills and the Stanford Achievement Test. "American school kids take more than 100 million standardized tests each year," says Barrett. "We already know what schools and which children perform well or poorly." Asks Boston College professor George F. Madaus...
...glasses--is a copy of Hamlet, a play he has carried with him almost constantly since he moved to New York a quarter-century ago. It is hardly as though he needs to read Hamlet again; he can recite the role from memory and has no current plans to perform the lead, having already done so twice in the past 12 years to warm reviews. Yet, for reasons even Kline cannot quite explain, he chooses to keep Hamlet handy at all times. Ever the dutiful student, the star of the forthcoming movies In & Out and The Ice Storm approaches...