Word: mcgrath
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School superintendent Mary Lou McGrath said yesterday that she was glad that some members of the community were concerned enough about education to formulate such a report...
...McGrath said she had only just received the article, and had only had time to skim it between activities concerning personnel selections...
Many staff members, McGrath said, are devoted to such special-needs areas as special education and bilingual programs, the latter of which is necessary in a community with a definite percentage of students for whom English is not a first language...
...spend a lot of time and resources with the top students and with the lower groups of students," McGrath said. "Students at the lower end of academics have achieved improvements, but we're looking a students with lots of issues. Also, there is a great correlation between the socioeconomic situation and student achievement...
...live-action Faith No More and Aerosmith videos interlarded with Beavis and Butt-head's pro-and-con commentaries ("For a big muscular dude he sure sings like a wuss") are nothing if not cartoonish. "There are moments of self-parody on MTV," says MTV creative director Judy McGrath, "but most of them are unintentional." This may be the bravest show ever run on national television: it lampoons not just the performers who are the channel's raison d'etre, but mercilessly depicts MTV's dopey, antisocial, suburban-boy audience. And what do the living, breathing Beavises and Butt-heads...