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...after a poor showing on a state exam landed Rosemont on Maryland's list of failing schools, a neighbor volunteered to help. Though Rosemont is still part of Baltimore's public school system, the school is now managed by Coppin State College, a public institution situated just down the street. The college does everything from hiring Rosemont's principal to wiring its classrooms to giving its students their annual immunizations. Result: last year more than 90% of Rosemont first-graders read at grade level or above. Says Frank Kober, a professor of education at Coppin State...
...Maryland's university system, educators credit K-16 outreach for a drop in remediation rates and a rise in SAT scores and minority enrollment. In a pilot program in Oregon, high school and state-college educators are redesigning college-entrance requirements so that admission will hinge on a portfolio of student work graded on a uniform scale. In the California State University system, 54% of freshmen had to take remedial math courses in 1998; the following year only...
...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 this year's 3% increase in student enrollment to the partnership's efforts...
...Democrats and Republicans ever since 1990. The apportionment of House seats and electoral-college votes must by law be determined only by person-by-person counts, or so the Supreme Court has ruled. But redistricting - how and where congressional-district boundaries are redrawn every decade so that a state's representatives have equal numbers of constituents - can be determined using statistical adjustments...
...Kenneth Blackwell, the Republican Ohio secretary of state who co-chaired the Census Monitoring Board, put it: "Is the juice worth the squeeze? No." After all, the whole thing - which is handled with much wrangling by state legislatures - is likely to be even more bitter in 2000 than it was in 1990, what with the national scales so easily tipped. It's one more partisan fight that a "uniter, not a divider" would want to stay as far away from as possible...