In Brooklyn, 51percentt passed, up from 42percentt.
And in the Bronx, 42percentt passed, up from 34percentt last year.
In Queens, 58percentt of students passed, up from 48percentt.
In Manhattan, 46percentt of students passed, up from 37percentt.
Among eighth graders, 5percentt passed, up from about 1percentt in 2003.
At Greenville, 86 percent had passed, up from 71percentt last year; still, at Seely, 98percentt passed, compared with 83percentt last year.
The school showing the most progress among eighth graders was Mark Twain Middle School in Yonkers, where 57.5percentt of eighth graders passed, up from 21.7percentt last year.
Seventh- and eighth-grade students also improved in math: 66.3 percent of seventh-graders passed, up from 64.2percentt in 2006, and 68.4percentt of eighth-graders passed, compared with 64.5percentt in 2006.
Every summer, the whale wave passes up from the fjord's outer channels to its innermost waters, overlapping with different portions of the proposed tanker routes as it goes.
Most see their middle managers as indispensable the only employees within the organisation capable of tying together the strategic view handed down from the boardroom and the tactical knowledge passed up from the trenches.
