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Paul Allen, owner of the Seattle Seahawks, hoists the Lombardi Trophy following his team’s 43-8 victory over the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII on Sunday in New Jersey. The Seattle defense stymied the top-ranked offense in the league and intercepted Peyton Manning twice in a dominating performance. See full coverage in Sports, B1. What was your favorite Super Bowl ad? See story, Page A8.
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A significant chunk of Oregon’s youngest students are lagging in math and reading comprehension. On Friday, school districts across the state learned how their kindergartners performed on the new Kindergarten Assessment last fall. Gov. John Kitzhaber said the bleak results prove the state’s “scattershot approach to early learning” has to change.
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BY KIMBERLY HEFLING The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Despite increased security put in place after the massacre at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012, there’s been no real reduction in the number of U.S. school shootings. An Associated Press analysis finds that there have been at least 11 school shootings this academic year alone, in addition to other cases of gun violence, in school parking lots and elsewhere on campus, when classes were not in session. Experts say the rate of school
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More than 95 percent of entering kindergartners took the test in September, giving what the Oregon Department of Education calls “an unprecedented and sobering look” at young students’ preparedness for school. The state pointed out two significant statistics: 33 percent of Oregon kindergartners could name at most five letters of the alphabet; 14 percent couldn’t pick out a single letter. On average, kindergartners on the
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BY CHELSEA DAVIS
School shootings continue despite safety emphasis
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Philip Seymour Hoffman, who won an Oscar for his role in “Capote,” was found dead Sunday of an apparent overdose.
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Kindergartners are not ready heading to school
shootings is statistically unchanged since the mid- to late-1990s, yet still remains troubling. “Lockdown” is now part of the school vocabulary. In Pennsylvania and New Mexico, Colorado and Tennessee, and elsewhere, gunfire has echoed through school hallways, and killed students or their teachers in some cases. Last August, a gun discharged in a 5-yearold’s backpack while students were waiting for the opening bell in the cafeteria at SEE SHOOTINGS | A8
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