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Hawkins is willing to hold back even kindergarteners unless they can meet certain standards: they should be able to follow simple verbal directions, know at least ten letters of the alphabet, write numbers up to ten as well as their first name, and recite a four-line nursery rhyme. Results of the reforms: scores on the California Achievement Test have gone up 13% for first-graders and 24% for second-graders, but 15% of first-and second-graders have been kept back. Hawkins is unapologetic. Says he: "Retention is not necessarily destructive to self-image. If you really want...
...Rhyme of the week: To Be Specific, It's Our Pacific...
...trial--helped satiate their leach-like needs. He toured on freak shows. He spurred a dance craze: the Chameleon rivalled the Charleston in popularity. He triggered a host of songs (Cole Porter once wrote "You're the tops, you're Leonard Zelig--except he couldn't find anything to rhyme with Zelig). Zelig paraphenalia--ashtrays, jewelry, and general knick-knacks--cropped up and sold briskly...
...Cole Porter was fascinated by him," recalls a witness. "He wrote a song: You 're the Top, You 're Leonard Zelig. But he couldn't find anything to rhyme with Zelig...
...researcher in Soviet science and policy at the Russian Research Center, concurs that "there is no organized Soviet community of immigrants." Harvard does, however, have a comparatively large foreign community because dissidents tend to emigrate to large cities such as New York or Boston, although "there's no rhyme or reason to which university gets people," according to Jonathan Sanders, assistant director of Columbia University's Harriman Institute for Russian Research...