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...Johns Hopkins University, has found that high and middle achievers do just as well in "heterogeneous" classrooms as they do in classes populated by kids just like them. And low achievers do better. Says Slavin: "My argument is, Why would you continue grouping students if it doesn't seem to benefit anybody?" One answer: parents of motivated students tend to be pretty motivated and skilled at persuading school boards to sustain classes that provide something special for their children. In an era in which gaining admission to top-shelf high schools and colleges has become a blood sport, self-interest...
...stock mutual fund hold 134 companies? It's as confounding as the frenetic trading that goes on in many funds--even though the very fund managers triggering the trades preach patience to their investors. Lay the blame on pressure for short-term results, if you like. But these paradoxes seem idiotic to me and probably help explain why most funds fail to keep pace with the market. They don't practice selectivity and patience...
...self-help books to find what I'm looking for: that new Carnegie Mellon University study suggesting that using the Internet can cause isolation, loneliness and depression. Whatever, I sigh, and roll over for another nap. But later, when I wake up and go online, I can't seem to shake the thing. The researchers purport to have measured, over the course of two years, the deleterious effects of a mere hour a week of Net use. They reported an average increase of 1% on a depression scale, four-tenths of a percent on a loneliness scale and a loss...
That's not an easy question to answer. Indeed, it's so complicated that the National Cancer Institute has developed a computer program to help you and your doctor make sense of it. Further complicating the picture is the fact that tamoxifen's effects seem to wear out after five years. So when is the best time to take it? In your 30s? Your 40s? Your...
Mountain-lion attacks [ENVIRONMENT, Aug. 24] seem to happen on and around the land where the animals once wandered. In the absence of their usual food, they prey on whatever they can get for their survival. What can be done to keep mountain lions from roaming on developed property? This is an interesting question when you consider whose property we're discussing. We have forced this on the big cats in the name of progress. Don't human beings kill in order to eat? Whether we are meat eaters or plant eaters, our food died in the name of sustenance...