McGee, had developed a prototype for a Virtual Patient program, one that third and fourth year Harvard Medical students could utilize (on CD-ROM) to learn some of the details of patient care that they would not be able to pick up on rounds.

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In Kentucky, the first state to replace state exams with tests based on Common Core, the percentage of students meeting math and reading goals dropped by about one-third last year.

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There are 2, 065 Chinese international students enrolled this year at Boston University, nearly a third of the total foreign-student population, university spokesman Colin Riley said.

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Last year, 27, 824 third- through eighth-graders, or about 8.8% of students in those grades, were required to attend summer school.

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