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Test scores of the 450 pupils dramatically bear out Fitler's success. Less than 50% of Philadelphia's pupils reach or surpass the national median on standardized tests in reading, math and language skills; at Fitler, 81% do so. Only 2% of Fitler's students are in the bottom sixth; citywide, the percentage is 17%. Such scores evidently result from Fitler's program, not just good luck in obtaining bright students. The evidence: Fitler children scored far lower at the start of the school's old-fashioned experiment in 1976; they have improved each year...
...find it deplorable but typical that the Government would shortchange the space program in favor of the welfare system or Chrysler Corp., thus allowing other countries to surpass us in developing space technology...
...main impact on Eckerd's undergraduate program, however, will be financial: income from the sale and rental of the buildings could eventually surpass the school's annual yield on its endowment. If Eckerd's zoning request is approved, says the St. Petersburg Times, "the lovely waterfront site would become just another tax-sheltered retirement haven for the well-to-do." Amid local concern that the plan has more to do with real estate than education, St. Petersburg's planning commission has refused to approve it. That leaves the issue in the lap of the city council...
Today all attempts to achieve military superiority are doomed. We may surpass each other in the production of a specific type of arms, but when we speak of the approximate parity of forces, both in your country and ours, we consider the totality of all the weapons that the Soviet Union, the U.S. and their allies possess...
Larry Holmes, the favorite, is up against his idol, or as Ali says, his "master." As Ali grows older, his student may have surpassed him in skill and practices (as Rocky Marciano passed Joe Louis). But Holmes will never surpass Ali in one thing: drive...