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...National Assessment of Educational Progress. The NAEP (pronounced nape) is a federal standardized test - known as "the nation's report card" - administered to fourth- and eighth-grade public-school students in reading and math. The state-by-state results show clear evidence of a continued problem: black students trail their white classmates in every state. But the report also offers some encouraging signs: overall scores have risen, and racial disparities are gradually shrinking in most areas, especially among younger students. Curiously, the South - the region traditionally hit hardest by the achievement gap - has been faring relatively well in bridging...
Highlight Reel: 1. The bad: Black students trail white students in reading and math in every state. The average overall gap in fourth and eighth grades was 26 points on the 500-point NAEP. Some areas saw an even larger disparity: Massachusetts, for instance, had a 40-point gap in eighth-grade math. (See pictures of a public boarding school...
...preferred method of transportation here, we recommend renting a nonmotorized two-wheeler, which is a lot safer. Even better, this tiny country of 21 square miles - one-third the size of Cape Cod - has 22 miles of bike paths, on which mopeds are not allowed. The Bermuda Railway Trail follows an old rail bed and traverses the entire string of eight islands that make up the inhabited parts of Bermuda. Cyclists on the path are never out of sight of the islands' clear waters, craggy bluffs and white-roofed cottages. Bike rentals cost about...
...Bermuda Railway Trail is equally enjoyable on foot. Hiking the trail usually leads to detours off it, like to Somerset, a village accessible only by the smallest working drawbridge in the world. The short bridge has an 18-inch gap covered by a plank, which is removed to allow unsailed masts to go through. Somerset is also the site of the annual summer Non Mariners' Race, in which entrants build absurdly unseaworthy craft to lose the nonrace "in the most astonishing fashion...
...even if the trail does lead to North Korea, there's no reason to believe it ends there. Meyerrose, now with the consulting firm Harris Corp., points out that hackers routinely route their attacks through other countries and networks, using multiple cutouts to evade detection. "In every attack I've ever seen, the attackers were careful to use cybersurrogates," he says...