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...seven-year-old boy in Cahokia, Ill., is suspended for having a nail clipper at school. A 10th-grader at Surry County High School in Virginia is booted for having blue-dyed hair. A Minnesota high school nixes a yearbook photo of an Army enlistee in the senior class because it shows her sitting atop a cannon outside a Veterans of Foreign Wars post...
...means a lot to me," said Annbela Dos Ramos, another Harrington School fourth grader...
Most of the assembled crowd seemed to enjoy the First Lady's appearance, including Marcelo Santos, a fourth grader at the Harrington School in Cambridge, who called Clinton "very great...
...certainly not surprising that 40 percent of eighth graders failed the math test last year. Last year was a just a test of the test. There were no consequences if a student did poorly on the test. Individual scores weren't even reported. Aside from a warm fuzzy feeling of accomplishment, there is no incentive for any eighth grader to do well on this 12-hour practice test...
Accentuate the positive, advises Jennifer Richard Jacobson, author of How Is My First Grader Doing in School? "Say, 'Look at all you learned!'" Even if the grades are poor, parents can ask, "What do you think you've done well? What are you proud of?" says Jacobson. Then ask, "What are you finding hard? Where are you having trouble...