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...prices there has been no inflation to speak of. Meanwhile, amid all the angst about overheating, there are signs of a slowdown, most noticeably in the crucial housing sector. The dollar is in fine shape. And while rising oil prices have skewed the Consumer Price Index to a three-year high, the core rate is up a very modest 2.1% for the past 12 months...
...fellows use their three-year stint in the society in the same way. Some stick to their project topic or finish their dissertations, while others take advantage of Harvard's broader community...
...airline, the sixth largest in the nation, and its flight attendants have been negotiating since Friday to settle a three-year long contract dispute...
...move on after one minute. Broadus, a phys.-ed. teacher for 29 years, had no training in reading instruction prior to Success for All. "I had no background," she laughs. "And with this program, I had no choice." The rigor apparently pays off at test time. In a three-year University of Memphis study of local Success for All schools, scores surged past state averages. At Anthony Bowen School, administrators say the scores of more than 50% of the children have risen...
Scholarly studies of structured-curriculum programs, while encouraging, are by no means conclusive. Richard Venezky, a professor of education at the University of Delaware, who conducted a three-year study of Success for All schools in Baltimore, found that though the lessons were developmentally sound and students made some improvement, they still lagged 2.4 years behind the national average in reading, and 25% couldn't read at all. And the programs' high price tags, coupled with administrative turnover at many struggling schools, can make it difficult to sustain them. Core Knowledge can cost as much...