Word: pupills
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...political machinery is grinding to a halt. Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, who plans to meet President Bush in Washington this week, has overseen a scandal-ridden administration. His political colleagues are maneuvering to replace him within a month. Bush, meanwhile, has promised to treat Japan less as a pupil and more as an equal, which sounds diplomatic but not perhaps helpful. "They're going to have to figure out for themselves what to do," Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill told MONEY magazine...
Nine colleges are participating in a trial of Bial's test, which was first given to 400 students in New York City in October 1999. James Sumner, dean of admissions at 1,400-pupil Grinnell College in Iowa, is hoping a test like Bial's will help identify strong minority candidates the college might miss in its traditional SAT-and-ACT-based selection process. This year Grinnell accepted two minority students who participated in the Bial-Dale test. The next step for the research is to track whether the participants stay in school and how much they contribute...
...students. To help alleviate the shortage, a growing number of states--including California, Virginia and Florida--are considering investing money from tobacco-lawsuit settlements in hiring nurses. The hope is that with more nurses, school districts will be able to see successes like those at a 3,000-pupil district in McComb, Miss...
...that sounds pretty good to everyone - teachers, parents and legislators. But here's where the debate gets sticky. The Bush plan gives public schools more funding, but if failing schools don't improve in two years, the federal cash flow stops, and money (as much as $1,500 per pupil) once earmarked for the school is diverted to parents, initially for use on transportation to better public schools. Then, after three years, parents can exercise their "school choice" and use that money toward private school tuition. (Notice that the words "school choice" have replaced the red-rag-to-the-bull...
...Nine colleges are participating in a trial of Bial's test, which was first given to 400 students in New York City in October 1999. James Sumner, dean of admissions at 1,400-pupil Grinnell College in Iowa, is hoping a test like Bial's will help identify strong minority candidates the college might miss in its traditional SAT- and-ACT-based selection process. This year Grinnell accepted two minority students who participated in the Bial-Dale test...