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...performances, Christensen earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Championships, to be held in Sacramento, Calif. from June 6-9. The pole vault was also an area of strength for the Crimson, with three strong junior vaulters. Clara Blattler took first at indoor Heptagonals, while co-captain Sally Stanton and Jitka Tomas were competitive all season. Tomas showed some versatility by also placing second in the triple jump at the event. Strong Harvard performances dotted the pentathlon as well, with sophomore Shannon Flahive and senior co-captain Julia Pederson posting top-six finishes at outdoor Heps. The smaller men?...
...evidence that NCLB is working, fans of the law love to point to schools that have reversed a long record of failure. Not far from Blaine, in a crime-infested part of town, sits M. Hall Stanton Elementary, everybody's favorite Philadelphia story. In 2002, only 12% of Stanton's fifth-graders were reading at grade level, and the third- and fourth-graders were engaged in what teachers called "gang wars." By 2006, 70% of fifth-graders were proficient readers, and the school was a model of decorum and learning, hitting its AYP goals three years in a row without...
...hard to say how much of the transformation can be attributed to NCLB. Much is due to changes made to the curriculum in Philadelphia and even more to Stanton's dynamo principal, Barbara Adderley. Certainly, she is a big fan of testing and accountability. She holds grade-level meetings with teachers in a room with two long assessment walls, which display the latest test results for every student. The walls show, at a glance, who's making progress and who isn't, and if it's the latter, Adderley and her team have a million creative ideas on what...
...think he did a very good job of putting the last nail in the coffin on the science issue,” said Stanton A. Glantz, the director of Smoke Free Movies, an organization that promotes reducing smoking in films...
Junior Clara Blattler was one of two scorers in the pole vault for Harvard, clearing 3.65 meters to tie for fourth. Co-captain Sally Stanton was eighth in the same event despite clearing the same height, as ties were broken based on number of misses...