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...hefty price, as classrooms have morphed into pressure cookers and as teachers dumb down creative lessons to teach only to the test. And recent studies allege that the gains in minority scores might be illusory. According to a study published last month by Walt Haney, an education professor at Boston College, growing numbers of the state's minorities - as many as 50% in some schools - are either dropping out or are granted "special education" status, meaning their test scores are not counted toward their school's overall ranking. Says Haney: "Any system leaving that many children behind is tragic...
...that intense coaching, like that at Woodrow Wilson, can lead to short-term spikes in test scores, but that later on kids tend to forget much of what they've crammed. "Instead of reading novels, kids are skimming three-paragraph passages for key words," says Linda McNeil, an education professor at Rice University, who this year co-authored a report critical of the Texas exam for Harvard University's Civil Rights Project. Texas' lackluster performance on other national exams bolsters her case. Even as TAAS scores have skyrocketed, those on the SAT have lagged. According to figures released last week...
...years. However, those studies tended to focus on poor families headed by teen mothers and kids of divorced parents. A Cornell University study of six- and seven-year-olds found that the mere fact of single parenthood does not mean that a child will have trouble academically. Henry Ricciuti, professor emeritus of human development and author of Single Parenthood and School Readiness, found that the mother's educational level and ability, rather than the absence of a father, have the most influence on a child's school readiness. Says he: "Single parenthood shouldn't be seen, in and of itself...
...Chamber of Commerce. With 33,000 people, the city recorded 11 hate crimes in 1998, far more than similar size towns like Kokomo, Ind., or Allen, Texas. "A lot of people in Coeur d'Alene resent the Aryans' impact on perceptions of their community," says David DeWolf, a professor at Gonzaga University School of Law in nearby Spokane, Wash. "Butler may be liable if Dees proves the guards were carrying out his wishes, even if they didn't literally follow his instructions. It's a minimal standard to establish liability...
...said he missed the writing. Also, the man could quote Shakespeare and Chaucer..... I was an English major in college so it's not like he could randomly quote and we wouldn't know if he was lying. I remember saying that he should be a professor because he was so great at explaining Shakespeare in a very...