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...remained flat and the dropout rate high. Critics maintain that real learning has been stifled. "Teachers are teaching to the test," says John Moore, chairman of the education department at San Antonio's Trinity University. Some South Carolinians, on the other hand, feel that their three-hour high school exit exam in reading, writing and math -- which for the first time will be required for a diploma this academic year -- has already had a salutary effect. "Students are taking it seriously and studying," says Robert Paskel, a state education monitor. One worry: that kids who do not pass will become...
...children to school, also plunged in, pulling seven bodies from the water. Nye, a scuba diver, said efforts to help the children were hampered by water so opaque that it was impossible to see. Trapped children struggled to get out the front door, windows and one rear-end exit door. "I didn't expect to be alive, but I'm alive," said one. Twenty youngsters died and 63 people were injured, including the two drivers, in the worst school-bus accident in Texas history...
...EXIT THE RAINMAKER...
...down some vodkas and board a flight. One of the letters was a brief note of resignation. One was a short statement to his wife that he was leaving because he was a "physical and psychological disaster." A postcard, to a close friend who was the college dean, read "Exit the Rainmaker. Good luck. Pls handle." Handle what? The mess? Carsey didn...
East Germany's problem. Hungarian Foreign Minister Gyula Horn rejected the charges of payments from West Germany as "unacceptable and insulting," then hinted that East Germany might be guilty of the same. Horn had a point: since 1961, East Germany has demanded cash from West Germany before granting legal exit permits for many of its citizens. This year alone, Bonn is expected to pay East Berlin $200 million for refugee resettlement. For all of Hungary's righteous indignation, however, it is believed that quiet promises were made by Bonn that will translate into generous...