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...promoted to the next grade hardly guarantees that they're getting a better education. Because many teachers feel compelled to "teach to the test," students may learn to pass the gateway exam but be left without the skills needed to progress much further. At Doolittle East in Chicago, Alfred Rembert taught a sixth-grade class this year in which all the students were repeating the grade. Half of them were promoted in January. Rembert spent most of this semester preparing the remainder for a fourth try on the Iowas. "All this focus on reading and math for the test means...
...kind of hard to predict how crowded it's gonna be. I'm sure when people get off work it's gonna pick up," explains Paul Byrne, owner of James's Gate in Jamaica Plain. "It has a lot to do with what day it falls on," says Rembert Stolinsky, dishwasher at The Harp. "Since it falls on a Wednesday, it'll get busy early then die out because people have to go to work the next...
...kind of hard to predict how crowded it's gonna be. I'm sure when people get off work it's gonna pick up," explains Paul Byrne, owner of James's Gate in Jamaica Plain. "It has a lot to do with what day it falls on," says Rembert Stolinsky, dishwasher at The Harp. "Since it falls on a Wednesday, it'll get busy early then die out because people have to go to work the next...
...Vatican tradition called the ad limina requires a Pope to meet privately and individually every five years with the presiding bishop of each of the world's 1,949 dioceses. It is a managerial tour de force, and it works especially well for Milwaukee, Wis., Archbishop Rembert Weakland, since it obliges the Pontiff to sit even with people whose opinions he abhors. "In the early visits," says Weakland cheerily, "one had the feeling if you were saying things he didn't like, he would just go silent on you. The last time I found it easier to engage...
...after six "listening sessions" with Catholic women who had resorted to abortion, Weakland urged open discussion and more compassion on the issue. For that, the Vatican vetoed an honorary degree he was to receive in Switzerland. Papal supporters picketed a 1995 Weakland event with a sign reading ROME NOT REMBERT...