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...schools "in need of improvement." Only 19% of its students meet state standards in reading. So when Kenia Olivero heard that President Bush had signed an education law that promises students the right to transfer from failing schools, she began to investigate what she could do for her son Kendrick, who was behind in his reading skills. She discovered that fewer than one-third of the students who requested transfers from low-scoring New York City schools actually got them last year. The good schools just didn't have extra space. This year Olivero sent her only son to live...
When President Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act in January 2002, he held an elaborate bill-signing ceremony in which he promised that his education reform would bring hope to kids like Kendrick. The law calls for states to test students in third to eighth grade each year in reading and math. In 53% of U.S. schools, which receive direct Federal Government funding because they have large numbers of low-income students, students can transfer to another school or receive free tutoring if their school fails for two years in a row to improve its test scores. Bush...
Though she’s released seven solo albums, Brown mainly records and plays with her band. The Alison Brown Quartet consists of keyboardist John R. Burr, West on bass and drummer Kendrick Freeman. Critics praise the group’s interesting twist on bluegrass music, bringing in jazz, world rhythms, folk and classical. “In Brown’s hands, the banjo is capable of fluid musical phrases of boundless beauty,” Billboard Magazine writes...
EXHIBIT BY NEW VES FACULTY. The Carpenter Center is displaying work by new VES faculty members: printmaker Gail Deery, photographers Jim Dow and Mark Steinmetz, sculptor Mel Kendrick and painter John Obuck. Through Feb. 16. Hours: Mondays through Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.; Sundays, 12 to 11:30 p.m. Free. Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy...
...Brien spearheaded the project, serving as manager, producer and editor. Kay was responsible for the artwork, introduction and clipping. Combined, the two invested almost 2,000 hours in the project. “Will and Kendrick put in huge man-hours,” says teammate John M. Barkett ’04, who did most of the actual filming and commentary. “The fact that two people could do this is amazing.” But for O’Brien and Kay, the effort and expense was well worth it. “It?...