Word: shortly
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...well below her grade level on the reading section of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills. Chicago's widely hailed policy aimed at ending social promotion--the practice of automatically passing students to the next grade--required her to attend summer school. At the end of it she fell short again, which meant she had to repeat eighth grade. She watched all her classmates move on to high school. "I feel really bad that I didn't make it," she said softly. "I think about that test all the time...
...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 they are getting less of the other subjects," he says. As a result, school systems like Chicago's may see short-term test-score gains--in part because a chunk of students are taking similar exams for a second, third or even fourth time--but suffer backsliding results in future years...
...balks at the destabilizing consequences of trying to starve out a dictatorship in its own backyard.) Indeed, with Milosevic?s strongest challengers right now being nationalists who reject the Kosovo peace deal, it may not even be in the West?s immediate interest to make Milosevic?s ouster a short-term priority. After all, in the long run he?s probably damned himself to a nasty end, whether as a besieged despot, a fugitive, in a war crimes court or worse. The truth, of course, is that there are no real winners in this messy Balkan conflict, only plenty...
...Crimson came up just short, falling in a decisive game to eventual league champion Cornell, 3-1, near year's end. That game came on the heels of a roller-coaster season that saw Harvard struggle offensively at times but play splendidly at others...
...Harvard Medical School starts short-lived China campus...