While reading scores soared on state exams, a nationwide test, the National Assessment of Education Progress, showed only slight reading gains, and said the gap between black and white achievement in Texas had continued to grow.
Now, however, the charter students average a slight reading advantage.
However, we accept the possibility of a slight reading error in these variations due to weaker signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), which would probably be more pronounced in the arteries.
The Seven Fires of Mademoiselle, by Esther Vilar (Vintage, £7.99) A slight, charming read which hovers between the tongue-in-cheek and the banal, Vilar's debut is a curio.
We've got the same cheesy humor between the turtles and... well, every other character; the theme song is a slight variation (read: hipper rap/rock) and still gets stuck in your head; the turtles still fight Shredder and The Foot Clan; they still love pizza.
And although Elsie's "memoir" feels slight, and reads too often like a funny first draft of something more substantial, it does what all good animal novels do – it makes us think about our relationship with the other species we share the planet with.
I could go on (it's in the worst kind of flood zone, it's at the wrong end of the city, it will add to congestion, it's already outdated, it is incredibly ugly, it's up against a public park of which there are few in Yorkville and East Harlem, it's next to a historic building, etc), but if you have the slightest interest, read the report, "Talking Trash," which explains it all.
In a faint voice, Danielo Morpeau, who is still learning English and speaks with a slight Haitian accent, read two of the first words he learned while living in New York: "melatonin," to aid sleep, and "Celexa," to treat depression.
Sun is a slight anomaly — he read a doctoral degree in agriculture, according to a report in the China Leadership Monitor, and spent a year as an exchange student in the United Kingdom.
