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...makeup of England's side is a reminder that there, too, rugby has spread far beyond its traditional domain as the erstwhile preserve of posh public-school types. Though a strong elite element remains, the current England team owes its success in part to such stars as Laurence Dallaglio, Paul Sackey and Jason Robinson (sons, respectively, of Italian, Jamaican and Ghanaian immigrants). Expect that diversity to grow: As television helps fuel rugby's popularity from the ground up, a rising number of the nation's best players will emerge from more modest milieus than Eton, Harrow and the school that...
Except that's not exactly what the data shows. It's true that controlling for socioeconomic status (SES) eliminates most of the public-school/private-school differences in achievement-test scores in math, reading, science and history. But even after you control for SES, Catholic schools run by holy orders (not those overseen by the local bishop) turned out to perform better than other schools studied. True, as the study says, there are only a small number of religious-order schools. But the data suggests that the type of school a kid attends does affect how well he will...
...more akin to athletic skill gained through practice rather than raw IQ. By contrast, achievement tests measure the amount of material students have committed to memory in any particular field.) Combined with high-school grades, SAT scores are the best predictor of how kids will do in their freshman year of college. And the data in the new study shows that private-school students outperform public-school students...
...been a happy mix. While one side struggles to pull kids off the couch, the other holds them fast. But Kim Mason, a phys-ed director in Rogers, Ark., with 28 years of experience selling kids on the virtues of sweat, did something unlikely last year: she persuaded her public-school district to invest $35,000 in brand-new video-game equipment...
...dancer Jacques d'Amboise, brings the U.S. to the world and the world to the U.S. by joining kids in the joy of music and dance. D'Amboise has long contributed to children in the U.S. through the National Dance Institute (NDI), which brings the enchantments of dance to public-school kids, often in tough neighborhoods. This year NDI featured Potou, a Senegalese village, in its yearlong program. Thousands of New York City schoolkids studied and talked about African villages like Potou; they danced and raised funds to help them. Thanks to their efforts, Potou's villagers will have better...