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Parents will see "retrofitted" scores on FCAT report card

25 May 2012

By Cara Fitzpatrick, Times Staff Writer Friday, May 25, 2012 Think your child earned a top score on last year's FCAT? Think again. Parents might get an unpleasant surprise this year when they open their child's FCAT report card. The state is including "retrofitted" 2011 reading and math scores to show how students would have done if they had taken this year's tougher test. The 2012 scores also ...

Movie Scores: How the critics rated the new movies

25 May 2012

They protect Earth from the dastardly aliens who roam among us, but Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones can only manage mediocre reviews from critics in "Men in Black 3."

Wall Street scores weekly gains, but sags for the day

25 May 2012

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks ended their first positive week in four with a down day on Friday as investors were reluctant to buy going into a long weekend, with uncertainty still swirling around Europe. An S&P index of industrial shares ranked among the session's biggest losers while weakness in large-cap tech stocks like Google Inc kept the Nasdaq in negative territory. Warnings about ...