Word: localizes
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Learning never to do the Heimlich on a black belt b. "Daniel-san" in Karate Kid IX: Russian Roulette c. Taking in local sights after the G-8 summit in Japan d. Regretting his promise to crack down on the Russian...
...That question drives what may be the next big thing in education reform: so-called K-16 partnerships, in which colleges work to improve K-12 schools. More than a century ago, universities and their local public schools talked at every turn. In those days before the SAT, many colleges designed their entrance exams, down to which passages from Homer students ought to be able to translate, and high schools tailored their lessons accordingly. But as the nation's public schools swelled and colleges started recruiting applicants from farther afield, universities lost touch with their neighborhood schools. Over time...
...payoffs have been even greater on the local level. Consider El Paso, Texas, where one-third of the adult residents cannot read English and last year only 75% graduated from high school. Ten years ago, the University of Texas at El Paso joined with that city's community leaders and three of its largest and lowest-performing school districts. Today UTEP's mark is apparent everywhere, from the schools' cheery hallways (the once drab corridors are papered over with student artwork) to test scores...
...University and local officials secured more than $30 million in grants and helped overhaul the district's curriculum and teaching methods. Some schools wiped out uninspired drills and work sheets in the younger grades, and high schools began pushing students to take three years each of rigorous college preparatory math and science. Before UTEP stepped in, just a small percentage of students took Algebra II and Chemistry; now more than half do. Compared with 1994, when just one school in the university-aided districts netted an exemplary rating on state exams, last year 18 did. Most important, the university ascribes...
...impending Inauguration of George W. Bush, the son of the man who waged the Persian Gulf War. The FBI's crisis command center is operating 24-7, with agents working through the Christmas and New Year's holidays. As the Inauguration approaches, the FBI, DOD, Secret Service and other local and federal units will run counterterror exercises in the Washington area...