Orthodox (and certainly ultra-Orthodox) children almost all attend Jewish day schools, at least at the elementary level.

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Although the United States has achieved universal access at the elementary level, a substantial minority of students about one in 20 drop out of school at the middle and high school levels.

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The vast majority of English learners, more than two-thirds at the elementary school level, were born in the United States.

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By 1980, however, near parity had been achieved at the elementary education level between African Americans and whites, with 100 percent of whites and 99 percent of African Americans in 1997 having five years of elementary school.

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But my goal is to challenge more schools and more communities to take part in this, particularly middle and high school students, because right now those 635 students are at the elementary school level, and we need to take this challenge up to kids in middle schools and high schools.

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The dispute illustrates the fervor that often surrounds the city's gifted-and-talented programs and comes amid a particularly bumpy year for admissions at the elementary-school level.

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Lest you scoff at my predilection for elementary-level reading (the book is rated for ages four to eight), I beg you to look past the pastel illustrations and sing-songy cadence of the writing and see this book for what it is: a beautiful script about parenthood, a poignant parable about life and death, a testimony to when the roles of child and parent become blurry.

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