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Camacho began one recent eighth-grade class by brandishing a page of the morning's Los Angeles Times, which listed the latest standardized-test scores of all the schools in the state. "This is a competition," he told his students. "What you see here is like a box score in the sports section." The school had a sorry record for the third year in a row, ranking in the bottom 20% in the state. But Camacho now has a new playbook. He spent the previous afternoon at a tutorial paid for by the school as part...
...spelling and punctuation: "If you write a deeply moving essay with atrocious grammar, you might still get a...passing score." Says Walt Haney, a testing expert at Boston College: "My main worry is that students will learn how to take tests but not how to think." Maria Aguilar, an eighth-grader at Robert J. Frank, shares the concern: "It's kind of boring; they go over the same thing so many times...
...losses for the women’s team came near the bottom of the lineup. Big Green freshmen Martha Ucko and Courtney Schenk both won 3-1 against Harvard’s Kristin Wadhwa and Neeta Lal in the seventh and eighth spots, respectively...
...prosecutors to revisit the case. He took his quest to the Internet two years ago MyrnaOpsahl.com) posting a damning dossier of evidence and providing postcards for visitors to print out and mail to the Sacramento D.A.'s office. In a strange coincidence, before his mother was shot, Jon's eighth-grade history teacher assigned him a current-events report on the Symbionese Liberation Army. He is finally one step closer to writing the conclusion...
...Deland penalized for tripping, Harvard junior captain and defenseman Jamie Hagerman set up Van Reesema for another shot. This time the shot was deflected to Catlin, who spun around and fired a wrist shot into the goal at 15:12 of the second. It was Catlin’s eighth goal of the season...