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...other districts, the spike in enrollment has driven once cozy classes up to regular capacity. Overcrowding was so severe in one St. Louis district that some students had to be turned away. So two years ago, the district extended the school year five weeks across the board, dedicating the bonus hours to intensive reading instruction. The shift paid off at test time. The four schools on the new calendar raised their scores, and one landed among the state's best performers. The longer year is so popular, reports principal JoAnn Bester Clay, that some parents and children want to abolish...
...soon got a job working as a script reader for director Spike Lee. But when he was offered a full-time position with Lee, Kessler turned it down...
...vehicle for social change, the open letter has accomplished just slightly more than the limerick, but it remains a wonderful medium for airing public squabbles. Spike Lee's most recent venting appeared in the Hollywood Reporter, decrying the curious lack of slaves in the Mel Gibson movie The Patriot, set in 1776. "While holding myself back from shouting at the screen, I kept wondering, Where are the slaves? Who's picking the cotton?" Indeed, screenwriter Robert Rodat gives Gibson's South Carolina gentleman farmer a cadre of African-American "employees" who refer to themselves as free men. "Did Rodat...
...spike in production takes about six months to work its way though the pipeline from the derrick to your Dodge Caravan, making stops at refineries, distribution networks and retailers before winding up in the gas tank. By then, U.S. consumers could be facing a new energy crisis - how to keep warm this winter with heating oil and natural gas prices on the rise - that will make this summer's vacation frustrations a distant memory...
Looks like this could be a long, hot, bloody summer in a few of America's largest cities. According to the Associated Press, murder rates are on the rise in several major cities across the country, from New York City to New Orleans to Los Angeles. The spike, coming on the heels of a sustained downturn in serious crime, brings some metropolitan areas back on track with 1997 and 1998 homicide figures, and has social scientists and city police departments in a dither. This year's increase, after all, is as mysterious as the previous ebb, and there's nothing...