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WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 10, 2008
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Kelsey Heard, Olathe freshman, battles against the bitter wind and snow walking toward the Kansas Union Tuesday afternoon. Although yesterday's fluories were a surprise to some, Heard, who bundled up with a scarf and hood, said she was prepared.
Student tests reveal higher scores
EDUCATION
It's beginning to feel a lot like... winter
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WASHINGTON — American schoolchildren do better than people think in math and science, but Asian students still dominate in
Kids in the U.S. made significant gains in math since 1995 and score above average on international fourth- and eighth-grade
math and have gained ground in science, an international study found.
countries, but mostly the developed countries are relatively similar." Mullis said, "And the United States might be one of the leaders of that group, depending on whether you're talking about math or science
"Our results do not show the United States trailing the developed world by any stretch of the imagination."
INA V.S. MULLIS Boston College Research Professor
tests in the subject, according to a study released Tuesday.
The findings contradict a persistent view in the United States that its children are lagging behind the rest of the developed world. An AP poll in June found that nearly two in five people believe American students do worse on math and science tests than those in most of the developed countries.
Not true, the authors of the report said.
"Certainly, our results do not show the United States trailing the developed world by any stretch of the imagination," said Ina V.S. Mullis, a Boston College research professor and co-director of the study.
"The Asian countries are way ahead of the rest of developed
Kids in Massachusetts and Minnesota did even better than the U.S. overall.In fact, Massachusetts students did as well as some of their Asian peers.Those
two states took part in the study separately.
in the fourth or the eighth grade"
The United States has a long way to go to lead the world in math. The study reported dramatically higher math scores in five Asian countries — Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan and Korea — than other countries participating in the study.
The top-performing Asian countries also had the biggest share of students reaching advanced benchmarks that represent fluency in the most complex topics and reasoning skills.
For the U.S., the news in another area isn't as good: Kids still do slightly better in science than math and are well above average, but scores have stagnated since 1995. In the meantime, other countries, including Singapore and Hong
Kong, have made significant gains and surpassed the U.S.
Outgoing Education Secretary Margaret Spellings said those findings show the need for the federal No Child Left Behind law. The 2002 law, which has become as unpopular as its champion, President George W. Bush, requires annual state tests and imposes penalties on schools that fail to make progress.
Spellings said the flat science scores, and gains by other countries, "remind us that we can't afford to be complacent."
"Now is not the time to retreat from rigorous accountability; instead, we must pick up the pace."
Spellingssaid. Conducted every four years, the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, or TIMSS, is widely used to measure the knowledge and skills of
were above the international average in each subject and grade.
Some believe the study gives too rosy a view of the U.S. by including poorer countries. Compare the U.S. to similarly rich countries, and its performance drops to the middle of the pack, said Andrew Coulson of the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute.
Regardless, the international findings generally are consistent with the United States' National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, often called the nation's report card. That study has also found progress in math and less progress in science. And the state tests required by the No Child
elementary and middle school students around the world. In 2007,48 countries took part in eighth-grade tests,and 36 countries took part in fourth-grade tests. In all,425,000 students were tested.
"Now is not the time to retreat from rigorous accountability; instead, we must pick up the pace."
The study compares the United States with other rich, industrialized countries as well as many poorer nations. Scores in the U.S.
MARGARET SPELLINGS
Secretary of Education
Left Behind law show similar results.
administers the test.
"Now all of our major tests are telling us the same things," said Tom Loveless, an education expert at the Brookings Institution and a representative to the international group that
The poor perception of U.S. achievement has been reinforced by another international test, the Program for International Student Assessment, which is given to 15-year-olds in 30 developed countries. That test is not tied to the school curriculum, as TIMSS and others are.
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Hudson returns to work after tragedy
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NEW YORK - Jennifer Hudson is getting back to work.
The singer is set to begin filming a video next week for her single, "I
in-law, William Balfour, who is married to Hudson's sister Julia, has been charged in the slayings. Prosecutors have said Balfour was upset Julia had been dating another man.
"This Isn't Love," according to her label, J Records.
Hudson was due to film the clip in Los Angeles when her mother, Darnell Hudson Donerson, and brother, Jason Hudson, were discovered shot to death in their Chicago home on the city's South Side on Oct. 24. The body of her nephew, 7-year-old Julian King, was found in a sport utility vehicle three days later.
Hudson has been in seclusion since the killings. However, she has thanked the public for their support since the tragedy, and last week issued a statement after she was nominated for four Grammy awards, including best R&B album
"It's been a childhood dream of mine to release an album, so to receive four Grammy nominations is truly a blessing," she said. "I am extremely honored and humbled by the nominations."
for her self-titled debut.
Hudson's estranged brother-
Hudson — also an Academy Award-winning actress — was reaching a new career peak at the time of the killings. She had just released her first CD, and was also starring in the movie "The Secret Life of Bees." She was featured in the summer blockbuster "Sex and the City" and sang the national anthem the night President-Elect Barack Obama accepted the Democratic presidential nomination in Denver.
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The workshop "Disability Studies: Japanese Institutions for the Blind" will begin at 12:30 p.m. in the Seminar Room in Hall Center.
The workshop "Leadership Great Leaders, Great Teams & Great Results" will begin at 8 a.m. in 204 JRP.
The University Support Staff Senate meeting will begin at 10:30 a.m. in the International Room in the Kansas Union.
He says he warned Centropa director Edward Serotta the statement was wrong before the article was published in October. He says Centropa humiliated him.
John Singer says he was circumcised as an infant. His lawsuit seeks unspecified damages from the Central Europe Center for Research & Documentation and its Centropa. org Web site, which have main offices in Atlanta and in Vienna, Austria.
If so, Purdue University has the goods: The school is auctioning the naming rights to seven newly discovered bats and two turtles. Winning bidders will be able to link a relative, friend or themselves to an animal's scientific name for the ages.
Singer, 49, says his mother was quoted in an interview for a Centropa article saying her sons weren't circumcised, which would violate Jewish law.
Man claims circumcised story is libelous
The first of the nine auctions began Monday, when the school put up for grabs the naming rights to a tiny gold and black insect-munching bat found in Central America.
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The winning bidder will be announced just before Christmas, said John Bickham, a Purdue professor of forestry and natural resources who discovered or co-discovered the nine species.
He expects the auctions to attract wide interest, with the chance to include a person's Latinized name in a new species' scientific name — a tradition that dates to the mid-18th century.
NEW YORK — A New York City man is suing a Jewish research group for libel, claiming it posted a story online with his photo that erroneously said he was not circumcised.
"Unlike naming a building or something like that, this is much more permanent. This will last as long as we have our society," he said Monday.
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