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More and more young Americans may find themselves in Hicks' and Cockrell's shoes. So-called high-stakes testing is the latest silver bullet designed to cure all that ails public education, and accountability is the vocabulary word of the day. High schools, it is widely believed, are graduating too many kids who haven't mastered basic skills. Solution: all students, even after passing their courses, must also pass a statewide standardized "exit test" to graduate. And the test scores can then be used to gauge how well teachers and school administrators are doing their jobs...
...told them the week before this year's Derby, "This time I brought a horse with a longer nose." They loved it when he filled out a questionnaire at a local hair salon and, under occupation, wrote down "porn star." They loved it when he helped Stevens up onto Silver Charm just before the Derby and told him, "May the horse be with you." Most of all, they loved it when his horse won a sensational stretch drive with favorite Captain Bodgit. In the winner's circle Baffert literally danced with the trophy. At the victory party afterward, Baffert kept...
What he did was ship Silver Charm to Pimlico for the Preakness and cross his fingers. Because of its shorter distance and tighter turns, the Preakness is the race he thought Silver Charm might not win. Indeed, bettors made him the third choice, behind Captain Bodgit and Free House. In the home stretch, Baffert thought, Free House would hold off Silver Charm. But along came Captain Bodgit, and Silver Charm responded to this new threat, catching Free House at the wire by the bob of his nose. "Free House is a buddy of his from California," Baffert says. "Captain Bodgit...
Unfortunately, Captain Bodgit injured a tendon in the Preakness and had to be retired. So on Saturday Silver Charm will try to beat Free House and six other challengers. A victory for Silver Charm would also be a victory for the industry, which seems on the verge of recovery after years of declining interest. "It's nice being the last jockey to do it," Affirmed's rider Steve Cauthen said the other day at Churchill Downs. "But I'll be rooting for Silver Charm in the Belmont. It'll be great for racing if that little horse does...
Maybe they'll get to go with Mom and Dad and Silver Charm into the winner's circle. If that happens, does Baffert have anything special planned, along the lines of his Derby dance and Preakness pose? "Actually," he says, "I've been rehearsing with my daughter Savannah, who's the same age as Silver Charm. When the camera is on her, I've instructed her to smile and then scream, "Show me the money...