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Summer school has traditionally helped close the gap. In tight-knit classes staffed with veteran teachers, students polish the sort of basic reading and math skills that often trip them up during the year. In more than 85% of summer-school evaluations, students who attended summer classes outperformed those who did not, according to a study by University of Missouri psychology professor Harris Cooper. The benefits can be lasting: 85% of students who spent their sixth-grade summer in Chicago's program, with classes at 15 students maximum, will be promoted to high school this fall. "The intimidation factor...
DIED. JAN KARSKI, 86, former Polish diplomat who provided to the West early eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust in World War II, and whose reports on the Warsaw ghetto and a Nazi death camp led to the Allies' statement in 1942 condemning German crimes against the Jews; in Washington...
Several weeks ago, at dinner with friends who have lived in Philadelphia for decades, I asked if there were visible signs of spit-and-polish as the city prepared for the GOP convention. Oh, yes, they replied. In fact, driving from the airport into the city, one notices immediately how remarkably clean the buildings are and how well paved the road is. If someone in the car were to turn around in their seat, however (preferably not the driver) and glance backward toward the airport, one might notice a slight discrepancy: Viewed from this new angle, the buildings stand...
They were right: For two years, and in ever-increasing measures, the City of Brotherly love has undergone the urban equivalent of a frenzied (and somewhat haphazard) spring cleaning, as crews polish highly visible districts to a reflective shine and sweep less promising areas under a carpet of anonymity. (Actually, anonymity may be reserved for the lucky neighborhoods: Residents of Philadelphia's struggling Logan triangle were probably wishing for relative invisibility last week when city bulldozers started plowing the neighborhood's modest 80-year-old houses, crumbling the homes into the landfill that had threatened to swallow them for years...
...flying blimps in North Carolina, and I heard these guys had a prototype," the Boston-born Danneker recalls. "I ran to my wife and said, 'We gotta pack.'" The guys were Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik GmbH, the maker of giant airships based in Friedrichshafen, Germany, which hired Danneker to polish up and test-pilot its 120th creation...