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...Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response is currently located on the eighth floor of Holyoke Center, but Marine said they will be moving into a permanent space on the third floor in November...
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...
...also especially heartbreaking because it happened to Virgil Ware. A smart, skinny kid, the third of six children whose father and uncles worked in the nearby Docena coal mine, he had just entered the eighth grade at the all-black Sandusky Elementary School near his home in suburban Pratt City. An A student who played tight end on the football team, Virgil seemed the sibling "who was most likely to go to college," says brother Melvin, 54, a crane operator in Birmingham. "He wanted to be a lawyer. When we'd watch Perry Mason, Virgil'd always...
...numbers issued by the National Academy of Sciences last week were sobering: 20% of eighth-graders and half of high school seniors surveyed last year said they had had a drink in the past month. Nearly 30% of the seniors admitted to having had at least five drinks at a time within the previous two weeks. Drunken behavior and violent crimes that result from adolescent drinking cost the U.S. $53 billion a year, according to the report, including $19 billion from traffic accidents alone. And although alcohol use among teenagers is far more widespread than illegal-drug...
Unlike many Division I athletes, Ogbechie did not grow up playing volleyball. She did not even start playing the sport until eighth grade. Before that, she had been a track and field star, competing primarily in jumping and long distance running events...