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Marital boredom gets a sly look in Julia Slavin's The Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg at the Maidstone Club (Henry Holt; 194 pages; $22) and Elena Lappin's fine collection, Foreign Brides (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 208 pages; $22). In My Date with Satan (Scribner; 223 pages; $22), author Stacey Richter covers female rivalry and the gender wars in a manner that indicates she may be in possession of one of the more outlandishly imaginative minds in contemporary fiction. Richter's book, just out, is being actively promoted by Barnes & Noble and has already far exceeded the retailer...
Many researchers argue that the supposed advantages of ability grouping do not pan out in practice. Robert Slavin, an educational researcher at 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...
...high special-ed costs come on top of the fact that Congress originally intended the Federal Government to pay 40% of the tab for educating handicapped children. In Baltimore last year, the Federal Government picked up less than 4%. "There's all this talk about unfunded mandates," says Robert Slavin, co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk. "This is a classic...
...Slavin also pursued a career in writing after leaving Harvard...
...felt that the real world was very much outside and that Harvard was this artificial, elitist place," Slavin says...