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...Hi. This is Jill. I'm not at home now. I'm out or something. But I guess that's like obvious. Anyhow, if you want to leave a message...
...charged for the Games. So the I.O.C. would just have to waive its fundamental rule of awarding the franchise to a city and instead hand it over to a board of businessmen. Past I.O.C. President Lord Killanin, a sparky Irishman, sputtered in reply, "You may be the only horse hi the race, but you still have to cross the finish line." Once the private organizing committee and the U.S.O.C. jointly contracted to guarantee zero financial liability for the city, the face-saving technicality was agreed to all around...
...chronicled a nation with declining basic skills, foundering will and a diminishing ability to compete with a hi-tech rival like Japan. In May, the National Commission on Excellence in Education (NCEE) stirred the most concern when it reported that the U.S. was "at risk" from "a rising tide of mediocrity." Its judgment: standards are too low, the school day is too short, teachers are paid too little and education is too far down the list of national priorities. The report's ringing indictment: "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance...
What is remarkable is that all this activity comes at a time when student enrollment is shrinking and funding is scarce. In hard-pressed Michigan, for instance, where the recession lingers (last month's unemployment: 13.4%), some schools almost had to close hi the 1982-83 school year for lack of funds; during the same year 90% of all school tax renewal proposals were approved, a good showing under the circumstances. Poll after poll has disclosed that the public would pay higher taxes for better schools. David Gardner, chairman of the NCEE, now admits, "I hadn't realized...
Southie is also the only district school that requires all ninth-graders to study a foreign language. In addition to a mandatory English course, ninth-and tenth-graders must take a reading and writing workshop that continues hi the eleventh and twelfth grades if the student does not do well. Daily attendance rates have risen 14% in the past year. Says Winegar: "You don't change a school with programs. You change a school with philosophy. We want to help young people battle their way into the mainstream...