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...ever since. In the spring of 1998 Walker scored well below her grade level on the reading section of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills. Chicago's widely hailed policy aimed at ending social promotion--the practice of automatically passing students to the next grade--required her to attend summer school. At the end of it she fell short again, which meant she had to repeat eighth grade. She watched all her classmates move on to high school. "I feel really bad that I didn't make it," she said softly. "I think about that test all the time...
This spring, Walker, 15, the oldest of eight children, got another chance. But she failed again, by four-tenths of a point, on the Iowa test's reading section. She is headed to summer school for one final shot at getting into high school in the fall. If she doesn't make it, she will go to one of the city's "transition centers"--an educational way station for kids who haven't qualified for high school but are too old to remain in a regular eighth-grade classroom...
Since the summer after his first year, Tobacman has worked with Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy David I. Laibson...
...first year Tobacman was very busy, taking five classes and rowing freshman crew. That summer he began research with Laibson...
...stake was a trip to England for the Oxford-Cambridge meet. The top performers made a composite Harvard and Yale squad that will make the trip this summer...