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...University study. The Catholic schools' lead in test scores, while slight in the fourth grade, was "dramatic" by the eighth grade. That lead was evident even when Catholic and public schools serving poor neighborhoods and minority students were compared. And the Catholic schools spend about half as much per pupil as the public schools...
...Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje. There were dozens of worthy initiatives to bolster democracy, promote understanding, and damp down ethnic strife. But now tank shells are flying again, and the real prospect of more widespread killing looms. So what came of all that effort to make Macedonia the star pupil of the troubled western Balkans? Was the problem intractable? Or was the response inadequate...
...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...