New lens elements and glass materials ensure the clearest possible imaging performance, and the proven dust and splashproof mechanism originally featured in the Four Thirds SHG (Super High Grade) series lenses is now incorporated for the first time in a Micro Four Thirds System lens.

ENGADGET: Olympus unveils a cavalcade of point and shoot cameras and a PEN lens at CES

She's even seen as much improvement as four grade levels in a year.

CNN: Learning to read? Try talking to a dog

On a recent day in Lopez's third-grade English class in Miami, the students learned the four points of the compass by reading and acting out a poem.

NPR: Instruction Of Students Learning English Bleak

Fairyhouse staged four Grade One races in one afternoon, and Tranquil Sea won the John Durkan Memorial Punchestown Chase.

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Mr. MONTY NEILL (Co-Director, National Center for Fair and Open Testing): While scores have tended to go up on NAEP at grade four--and in math they went up fairly solidly for a while--they've now leveled out.

NPR: Mixed Report Card for U.S. Schools

While Cincinnati public schools have not hit their targets, they have improved in all four consistently measurable areas: fourth-grade reading, eighth-grade math, graduation rates and college enrollment.

WSJ: Reaching Outside The Ivory Tower

The state gives extra money to schools that get an A or improve their grade, and children at schools that get two F grades in four years are allowed to transfer to better schools.

ECONOMIST: Conservative education reform

The Reds captain faces three to four weeks out because of a grade two hamstring tear suffered in England's 2-1 defeat by France on Wednesday.

BBC: Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson angry over Gerrard injury