This means they can raise capital from private lenders: 31% of the bank's middle-income lending now goes to countries with investment-grade credit ratings.

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There is also increasing evidence that interventions can produce middle-to longer-run effects on school achievement, special education placement, grade retention, disruptive behavior and delinquency and high school graduation.

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My kids have entered that nebulous no-mans-zone known as the middle grade (or tween) years: too old for simple chapter books (like The Magic Tree House series), but too young to demolish YA books about vampires by the dozen.

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As the years went by, I moved from Montreal to an upper-middle-class suburb of Boston for the sixth grade.

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Galli grew up in middle-class Pittsburgh, the son of a doting mother and a hard-nosed father with an eighth-grade education who still works most days at the junkyard he has owned for 50 years.

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Today, YES serves students from the third grade through graduate school, though Eisner focuses on the pivotal upper-middle-school years: The kids are old enough for him to reliably evaluate their work ethic and their hunger for knowledge, but young enough that their minds are still growing rapidly.

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In the year to date, loans are running in the middle of the pack, trailing equities and high-yield bonds, while beating 10-year Treasuries and investment-grade corporate bonds.

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