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...Family Values The Hospicio De San Jose is a hushed haven from central Manila's crushing heat and traffic. Inside the orphanage's dormitory, Sister Socorro G. Evidente points through a window to Pauline, a 2-year-old napping in the dark, thumb in mouth. When she was a week old, Pauline was left by her mother, who said she was going to work in Dubai. She never came back. Some mothers, Evidente says, "do not even bother to send any money for their kids ... The children grow up feeling like they're really abandoned...
...Emergency Management Agency and run by New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, is one of five training centers in the U.S. that deal with nuclear, biological and chemical threats. New Mexico concentrates on high explosives. It has another facility, a 40-sq.-mi. range in the mountains outside Socorro, which actually blows things up. There, this class watches from half a mile away as plastic explosives rip through two offices, mangling their dummy occupants. Later, a 1988 Thunderbird with 200 lbs. of ammonium nitrate in the trunk erupts in a massive geyser of flame, raining jagged steel onto...
...most objective measure, test scores, year-round education seems to be working. Before switching to its new schedule, Socorro schools had some of the lowest test scores in the county. Now Socorro students outscore the state average on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills. One Socorro school, Campestre Elementary, sits just 200 yards from the Rio Grande; two-thirds of its predominantly Hispanic students have limited English proficiency. Yet 87% of Campestre's third-, fourth- and fifth-graders passed the state's achievement exam, compared with 67% before the school started its year-round schedule four years...
Year-round schools can also be a way to use facilities more efficiently. Some overcrowded schools stagger students into different tracks, ensuring that a fraction of the student body will be away during every grading period. Socorro schools were able to serve 2,000 more children during the 1993-94 academic year because of its multitrack calendar, a great help in a district that grows by 1,500 kids a year...
Parents can also take comfort in the biggest surprise of all: children who attend year-round schools actually seem to like them. Melissa Hill, a fifth- grader at Socorro's O'Shea Keleher School, had her initial doubts about year-round schooling. "But now I like it a lot," she says. "When I used to wake up in the morning, I felt like I wanted to crawl back in bed. I think it encourages kids to go to school because you always know that you're going to be on break soon." Mireya Reyes, a fifth-grader at Campestre, doesn...