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Jane lived at home in Chicago and spent her summer evaluating math textbooks used in high schools. "I was in charge of analyzing data collected from 1000 ninth and tenth graders on their opinions of math books," she says. It's not even exciting to read about, let alone live...
...although Jane says she would never, never, never do it again, she did gain some valuable experience. She left Chicago with two 50-page reports--all about how much ninth and tenth graders love their math books--and the ability to complete, with help from the other bored research assistant, the Chicago Tribune crossword puzzle in 10 minutes...
...rights or notions, like "privacy" or "fairness," that the framers did not deposit there. Yet the Founding Fathers foresaw the possibility that the Bill of Rights might leave the impression that citizens possessed only those liberties specifically mentioned there. For that reason they provided a catchall in the Ninth Amendment: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." Neglected for almost two centuries, that language was seized by the court in the mid-1960s as one basis for its more expansive readings...
...their vanishing culture. For Donna Maxim's third-graders in Boothbay, Me., writing will become a tool in science and social studies as students record observations, questions and reactions about what they discover each day. In Eagle Butte, S.D., Geri Gutwein has designed a writing project in which her ninth-grade students exchange letters with third-graders about stories they have read together. This year a few of her students will sit with Cheyenne women who tell tales as they knit together, their heritage becoming grist for today's young writers...
...blood, promising a $10,000 reward to anyone who would help rescue him. He wrote nine such notes, scribbling some of them on the pages of a prayer book supplied by his captors, and pushing them out through the opening in a wall fan. His kidnapers found the ninth note. They warned him that if he made such a "mistake" again, they would kill him. Then they moved him to another location, the one at which he plotted his successful escape...