Studying Instead of Criticizing" (On Education column, by Samuel G. Freedman, Aug. 2): As an elementary school teacher, I cannot dispute Mr. Freedman's claim that some students should be retained because they are not ready for the next grade.
The battle has come down to something so elementary as to be beyond dispute: ripping the curtain of secrecy from fund-raising that the public thought it had outlawed back in the dark Watergate days.
If a dispute involves only the conflicting rigs of private litigants, it is elementary that the decision-maker must be impartial and qualified to understand and to apply the controlling rules.
The latest dispute erupted over the goings-on in a single, state-financed girls' elementary school in Immanuel, a somewhat remote ultra-Orthodox settlement in the northern West Bank.
While many dispute his success, by the end of his run, the percentage of elementary students passing state standards increased by 30 points.
A dispute over the state's parent trigger law and control of a Los Angeles elementary school were resolved Tuesday in a settlement with the L.A. school district and a group representing parents.
The Taliban is mediating local disputes in some areas, for example, offering the population at least an elementary level of access to justice.
In a city like New York, where nearly half of public elementary school children are overweight or obese, we can't afford to get distracted by disputes over how fat we are.
[29] In another study of elementary school children in Israel, a nationwide temporary closure of elementary schools due to a labor-management dispute resulted in a substantial reduction in respiratory illness rates and healthcare visits among the students.
"The Chamber's survey violates the elementary principle that evaluation of legal system performance should be based on input from both sides to disputes," noting the obvious: "asking only one side to a dispute about a system will yield biased results".
The settlement--which comes only weeks before the dispute was to go to trial in federal court--will be an economic boon to the 1,700-student 1,700-studentstrict.
