Iranian security officials helped plan Hamas’s Saturday surprise attack on Israel and gave the green light for the assault at a meeting in Beirut last Monday, according to senior members of Hamas and Hezbollah, another Iran-backed militant group.--wsj
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At least one person is dead and eight others wounded after a shooting early Sunday morning in White Township, not far from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. A spokesperson for IUP said at least two of the nine people shot were students.
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What is the most settled science, global warming or the danger of secondhand smoke?
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In an interview this morning, McCarthy hedged on his willingness to return.
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School Stats
Here are some 'academic' stats on the American school system. Every culture in history recognized that education created the next generation of citizens, their hopes, their ambitions and achievements. The problem is not that the schools do not do a good job, it is that the obvious failures do not create corrective response.
Minority pupils compose 89 percent of Chicago’s public-school student body. In third through eighth grades, the percentage of Black students proficient in reading and math are 11 percent and 6 percent. Hispanics: 17 percent, 11 percent. The percentage of 11th-graders proficient on the SAT in reading and math: Black students 10 and 8; Hispanics: 16 and 17. In 22 schools, not a single student can read at grade level; in 33, not a single student can do math at grade level. Even the supposedly good news is disgusting: Last year, the graduation rate was a record high 82.9 percent — even though chronic absenteeism is 49 percent among low-income students.
These are the results of public-school operational spending increasing 58 percent in a decade, to $26,356 per pupil. Mostly this funds teachers’ salaries and benefits. Teachers praising “socialism” and prating about “social justice” thrive while their students’ futures are stunted.--Will
The Chicago Teachers Union got its former lobbyist, Brandon Johnson, elected mayor, in part by funding his campaign with an $8 monthly deduction from teachers’ paychecks.
Thirteen of Baltimore’s public high schools have zero students who are proficient in math. Only 11.4 percent of the students in the five best-performing Baltimore public high schools were proficient.
School Stats
Here are some 'academic' stats on the American school system. Every culture in history recognized that education created the next generation of citizens, their hopes, their ambitions and achievements. The problem is not that the schools do not do a good job, it is that the obvious failures do not create corrective response.
Minority pupils compose 89 percent of Chicago’s public-school student body. In third through eighth grades, the percentage of Black students proficient in reading and math are 11 percent and 6 percent. Hispanics: 17 percent, 11 percent. The percentage of 11th-graders proficient on the SAT in reading and math: Black students 10 and 8; Hispanics: 16 and 17. In 22 schools, not a single student can read at grade level; in 33, not a single student can do math at grade level. Even the supposedly good news is disgusting: Last year, the graduation rate was a record high 82.9 percent — even though chronic absenteeism is 49 percent among low-income students.
These are the results of public-school operational spending increasing 58 percent in a decade, to $26,356 per pupil. Mostly this funds teachers’ salaries and benefits. Teachers praising “socialism” and prating about “social justice” thrive while their students’ futures are stunted.--Will
The Chicago Teachers Union got its former lobbyist, Brandon Johnson, elected mayor, in part by funding his campaign with an $8 monthly deduction from teachers’ paychecks.
Thirteen of Baltimore’s public high schools have zero students who are proficient in math. Only 11.4 percent of the students in the five best-performing Baltimore public high schools were proficient.
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