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...improved if schools establish standards and insist that kids meet them before moving on to the next grade--has a simple, sound-bite toughness. It appeals to parents and teachers at a time when frustration with student underachievement is boiling over. Distressing test results released this spring in states like Louisiana (where 40% of eighth-graders flunked the state's exam in math) and New York (where 40% of fourth-graders flunked a new state exam in reading) have only strengthened the cause...
That hasn't stopped the railing against social promotion by politicians eager to burnish their credentials on public school reform. In January's State of the Union address, President Clinton drew bipartisan applause with his declaration that "all schools must end social promotion." Last month the White House proposed withholding federal money from states that don't come up with plans to end social promotion within four years. In Texas, G.O.P. presidential favorite George W. Bush made the ending of social promotion the centerpiece of his much praised education agenda. His state legislature is expected to approve a bill this...
Ahtisaari was a welcome addition to the team soon nicknamed "hammer and anvil" in State Department circles. Chernomyrdin didn't much cotton to his uncompromising American interlocutors, and he shared the general Russian suspicion that NATO leaders, particularly Clinton, were driven less by concern for Kosovars than by the desire to show the rest of the world who is boss. Washington worried that Chernomyrdin was soft-pedaling NATO's demands in Belgrade, and wasn't sure he relayed back an accurate reading of Milosevic's intentions...
...pounds, sophomore Brad Soltis, the third Harvard wrestler to earn a trip to Penn State, was put to the test immediately and lost to No. 11 seed Chael Sonnen of Oregon. He then put up a strong fight against Mike French of Cal Poly but lost...
...Crimson went 2-2 at the Aloha Classic in Oahu, Hawaii, where it faced four tough opponents. The wrestlers for the tournament, easily dismantling Portland State and Air Force before falling to Purdue and BYU, both ranked...