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...scrutinizes the annual financial audits of charter schools, but pays less heed to what goes on in the classroom. Paramount, for instance, has drawn no special attention for its schizophrenic test scores. In some areas close to 70% of students met or exceeded state standards last year; on the eighth-grade math exam, none did. In April, Kristen Jordison of the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools made a routine visit to Paramount Academy on a day when all but kindergarten classes were suspended for testing. On the basis of that visit, Jordison said the school "seemed to be doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Charter Schools Pass The Test? | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...much. Salt used to be worth a lot of money. So did Amazon.com It all has to do with an invisible hand, which sounds like something I was pretty sure I was going to get away with when I went to see a movie with Jackie Tudor in eighth grade but actually explains capitalism. My failure with Jackie is best explained by the foolish choice of Beverly Hills Cop II instead of Dirty Dancing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Relief from Painful Gas | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...month later, Ken O'Donnell '49, caught his eighth interception against Yale, setting a record that stands to this day. O'Donnell would go on to serve as special assistant to President John F. Kennedy...

Author: By David R. De remer and Daniel E. Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Harvard Football Fumbles; Other Sports Step Up | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

After a tough journey to an NCAA berth, the Radcliffe heavyweight team placed eighth out of 10 teams that qualified to race on Lake Lanier in Gainesville...

Author: By Jessica T. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Heavyweights Place Eighth at NCAAs | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

Washington won the team competition with a total of 58 points while Michigan and Brown took second and third with 53 and 49 points, respectively. Radcliffe’s 20 points earned eighth...

Author: By Jessica T. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Heavyweights Place Eighth at NCAAs | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

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