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...Class of 2011’s test scores and relative academic achievements were consistent with other classes, Fitzsimmons said...
...There’s always a negative correlation between socioeconomic background and access to education for high test scores,” Fitzsimmons said, “but we have been able to keep standards right where they were...
...home during spring break last week, getting my mom hooked on Maury Povich and basking in the greatness that is the moment just before a revealed paternity test result, I took a second to realize just exactly what was going on. As much as I tried to rationalize my enjoyment of such spectacles by reasoning that there’s no way that they could be real—people can’t be that dumb or embarrassing—when it came down to it, I was deriving enjoyment from the misery (or in the case of guys...
...Loesser kept feeding her novelty numbers to test her skills of pronunciation and breath control. Often the songs have her complaining, if not about a boyfriend, then about work. "The Sewing Machine" (from The Perils of Pauline): "I bobbin the bobbin and pedal the pedal / And wheel the wheel all day/ So by night I feel so weary / That I never get out to play." And in another Pauline song, the sublimely frantic "Rumble Rumble Rumble," Betty practically falls off the piano top she's perched on, so agitated is she singing about how she can't get to sleep...
...protect them from danger (driving, cigarettes, alcohol); we don't trust them to work or own property ... We don't allow them to make basic decisions about their health, education or religion." Epstein's proposal? Allow any kid--of any age--who can "pass one or more relevant competency tests" not only to do constructive things like sign contracts and vote but also to do essentially anything he or she wants: have sex with people of any age, drink, smoke, drive, get a tattoo. "If they can pass an appropriate test of maturity," Epstein writes in a passage that left...