Word: summers
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...states approved similar measures last year. Urban districts such as Boston, Philadelphia and Seattle have vowed their own crackdowns. In New York City, 50,000 failing students in the third, fifth and eighth grades may be retained if they don't pass tests at the end of newly mandated summer school...
...help determine whether students should move to the next grade. In the year before the new approach, less than 2% of students were forced to repeat a grade; last year close to 15% of third-, sixth- and eighth-graders were retained. The city spent $24 million last year on summer programs designed to give kids one last chance to pass the Iowa test before September. It invested $10 million in hiring new teachers to tutor retained students. If test scores are the measure, the stricter policy is working. Math and reading results in the elementary and high school grades...
...promotion plan for another year. Chicago's policy, meanwhile, has failed to put a dent in the city's number of poorly performing students. Last month school officials said that 30,424 third-, sixth- and eighth-graders failed to score well enough this year to avoid summer school--an increase of 10% over last year...
...next driver. No one needs car F, so I take it for a quick spin. According to Susan Shaheen, 32, the graduate student who runs CarLink, car-sharing organizations have flourished in Europe and Japan. Switzerland has 600 of them. This summer Seattle plans to launch a sharing program using 200 cars...
Right now my father is vigorous, and he has a rich life. He just bought a new lawn mower--and not a self-propelled one. He rakes his leaves and rides his bicycle. A retired physics professor at Princeton, he directs and teaches in a summer program at the university and serves on the boards of several nonprofit institutions...