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the Davy Medal and Bakerian
Lectureship by the Royal Soci
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Prize for Creativity in organic
chemistry and the Robert A.
Welch Award in chemistry.
He has also been granted
honorary degrees from the
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(25.8 percent) and California
(24.8 percent).
Almost 58 percent of appli
cants rejected by state and lo
cal authorities had felony con
victions or indictments,
compared with 73 percent in
1999.
The second most common
reason for rejection was a do
mestic violence misdemeanor
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Enrollment in summer school
rises with increasing standards
u BALTIMORE (AP) — As
fourth-graders citywide splashed
in municipal swimming pools
last week, Tifphany Cantey sat in
a rock-hard chair, her slender
-legs crossed under the desk as
she flipped dirough a paperback
book, trying to remember what
she had just learned about rivers.
People fish in them. Animals
drink from them. Sometimes
they change course.
Cheerful nonetheless as she
filled in the columns on a work
sheet, the 10-year-old said that if
she did not have to sit here —
her mother teaching die class! —
she would be at home, relaxing.
“I would either be home in
my room, reading a book or
watching TV,” she said, a smile
creeping in as she thought about
her favorite books, “The Baby-
Sitters Club” series.
t Tifphany is one of 32,000
Baltimore school children —
about one-third of all students
— required to be in school on
Some kids need
more than 7 0
months to get to
the place where
they need to be. ”
— Maureen Harris
director of Boston's summer
school program
the first week of summer be
cause they failed to meet the
city’s new, tougher academic
requirements.
For many students these
days, both in Baltimore and na
tionwide, such rules have ush
ered in what amounts to year-
round school.
“Some kids need more than
10 months to get to the place
where they need to be,” said
Maureen Harris, who runs
Boston’s summer school pro
gram. Officials there expect
about 8,000 students. About
7,000 attended last year, com
pared with 4,000 in 1999, the
program’s first year.
Led by big cities, districts
across the country are spending
millions of dollars on summer
programs, offering smaller class
es and more individual attention
even as they get tough on those
whose math and reading skills
lag behind.
“T he programs are growing,
and they’re spreading from one
urban community to the next,”
said Harris Cooper, chairman of
the University of Missouri’s de
partment of psychological sci
ences and author of a book
about the effectiveness of sum
mer school programs.
Researchers last year found
that 80 of the largest 100 school
districts held back students who
did not successfully complete
summer school. An informal sur
vey by the Associated Press of 10
big-city districts found that high
er state and local standards have
prompted all to offer or require
summer school for increasing
numbers of students.
In Chicago, 70,000 of the
city’s 435,000 public school stu
dents must attend summer
school. In New Orleans, more
than 10,000 of the city’s 75,000
students are taking required
classes after doing poorly on the
state’s skills test.
Similar programs are under
way in New York, Los Angeles,
Washington, Philadelphia,
Denver, Cleveland and Miami.
conviction or a restraining or
der. 'Those accounted for about
11,000 applications, or 12 per
cent of rejections.
Background checks to see if
prospective gun buyers have
criminal records have been re
quired since February 1994 un
der the Brady Handgun Vio
lence Prevention Act.
Through 2000, the FBI or
state and local police had re
jected 689,000 of nearly 30
million applications, or 2.3
percent, compared with the 2
percent rate of rejection last
year, the report said. The
checks are done electronically.
The report showed that in
2000, the FBI processed 4.3
million applications and state
and local agencies processed
3.5 million.
State and local agencies did
not approve 86,000, or 2.5 per
cent of applicants; the P'BI re
jected 67,000, or 1.6 percent of
those who applied in 2000.
Greenfeld attributed the dif
ference to state agencies’ access
to more detailed criminal his
tory records than the FBI’s.
“They may have other data
bases they check that the FBI
couldn’t check,” Greenfeld
said.
Attorney General John
Ashcroft said the report shows
that the Brady law is working,
but more needs to be done to
prosecute people who try to
purchase guns illegally.
“While the Brady law has
helped us stop convicted felons
and other dangerous individu
als from buying guns easily, vi
olations of the law are not be
ing prosecuted adequately,”
Ashcroft said.
Ashcroft recently an
nounced several initiatives to
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