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When Black was in eighth grade, his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and he started hanging out in the labs at Case Western Reserve University. By high school, he was performing organ transplants and heart-valve replacements in dogs. At 17 he was a semifinalist in the national Westinghouse science competition for his research on the damage done to red blood cells in patients with heart-valve replacements. That year he was accepted in a University of Michigan six-year program that offered degrees in biomedical science and medicine...
...Percentage of eighth-graders in Louisiana who passed the state math test...
...addition, the Engineers return wideout Deron Braswell, who finished eighth last year in Division I-AA's yards-per-catch category...
After all, the President's proposal to develop voluntary fourth-grade reading and eighth-grade math tests by 1999 has enjoyed public support since its unveiling last February. Education experts agree that American public schools badly need tougher--and higher--national standards. National testing would enable parents and schools from Cambridge, Mass., to Compton, Calif., to measure an individual student's performance against a common yardstick. A well-executed national testing system might also ease the transition to charter schooling and public-school choice by providing a standard method of assessing different schools' strengths. In a TIME/CNN poll last week...
...exams will look like. And so everyone is anxious. Critics charge that the committees drafting the exams are using them to promote faddish pedagogies like "whole language" and "fuzzy math." Last month a disgruntled group of teachers and academics penned a letter to the President contending that the eighth-grade math test isn't tough enough in measuring basic computational skills. On the other side, the Cambridge-based watchdog group FairTest opposes the exams, executive director Laura Barrett says, for focusing on "rote memorization rather than creative problem solving...