Dropout Rates Fall and Grades Rise in U S Schools
The Associated Press notes a Center on Education Policy report comparing 1980s and mid-1940s data shows fewer dropouts and more students taking challenging courses. SAT math up 17 points and verbal +2. college enrollment up. crime in schools declined 1995–97. Gaps by race narrowing though still large.
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FAA computer glitches ground flights across eastern U.S.
The FAA reported a second day of Sea computer problems grounding dozens of flights in nearly a dozen eastern cities. A Leesburg Virginia center data transfer issue around 6 45 a m caused delays while officials blamed flight plan software overload. A Nashua New Hampshire center had caused Monday night delays across Massachusetts New Jersey and New York.
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Washington Monument scaffolding to come down in refurbishing
Workers begin Monday dismantling blue cloth scaffolding around the Washington Monument as part of a 22 year refurbishment. The phase two repair aims to seal water intrusion, with completion expected in late spring or June.
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Settlement Reached With Internet Auction Firm Over Deceptive Emails
The FTC said Bite Reverse Auction.Com agreed to settle a complaint about unsolicited emails to eBay customers claiming online identities would expire. The firm must stop misrepresentations and warn customers that registrations linked to those emails did not expire and that the company did not act on behalf of its competitor.
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Architect Adams Yarmolinsky Dies at 77 in Washington
Adams Yarmolinsky, 77, helped form President Kennedy's New Frontier and guided its defense, health care, civil rights, and housing objectives. An Harvard 1943 and Yale Law graduate, he served in the Air Force in World War II and was a special assistant to the undersecretary of defense from 1961 to 1964 before dying of leukemia at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington.
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