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...Margaret Elias and the rest of the lineup--Virginia Brown, Ashley Harmeling, Katie Gregory, Kristen Madhwa and Ellie Shields--scored 3-0 victories...
...High teaches at Providence Elementary School in Fairfax City, Va., which has a lot riding on the success of her efforts. As part of Virginia's high-stakes testing program, schools that don't boost their scores by the year 2007 could lose state funding. So Fairfax City, just 18 miles southwest of the White House, has upgraded its two crumbling elementary schools with new high-tech television studios, computer labs and one very old feature - mandatory Latin...
...Though some critics complain that teachers are forced to dumb down their lessons and "teach to the test," some schools are offering more challenging course work as a way of engaging students. In the past three years, scores of elementary schools in high-stakes testing states such as Texas, Virginia and Massachusetts have added Latin programs. Says Allen Griffith, a member of the Fairfax City school board: "If we're trying to improve English skills, teaching Latin is an awfully effective, proved method...
Barbara Perry, professor of government at Virginia's Sweet Briar College and a constitutional law and Supreme Court expert, was among the privileged few to view these historic Supreme Court proceedings firsthand. Here are her thoughts immediately following the conclusion of Friday's oral arguments...
...possible, for example, says Barbara Perry, professor of law at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, that the Court could hear the oral arguments Friday morning, confer Friday afternoon and decide to dismiss the case as "improvidentially granted." This neat bit of 19th-century verbiage simply means the Court has decided, for whatever reason, that it is not interested in ruling on the case. If this happens, the case bounces back to the previous court (the 11th district circuit court in Atlanta). And since those judges have already heard the case (and ruled against Bush), unless there is a new twist...