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Education Secretary Lamar Alexander proposed to test fourth graders, eighth graders, and 12 th graders in five different subjects, including American history.
The argument is that Europe's eastern Jews have no connection to the Jews of the Bible, but are all descended from the Khazars, a once-powerful Turkic people who lived near the Caspian Sea and who are known to have converted to Judaism in the eighth century.
Arriving in the eighth century b.c. , the Greeks set up city-states in Sicily, dominated by Syracuse, as well as other settlements on the Italian mainland, such as Naples, Paestum, and Taranto.
All great jazz musicians have an original approach to playing eighth notes, from Louis Armstrong to Coleman Hawkins to Lester Young to Charlie Parker to Bill Evans to Miles Davis and on and on.
The New York Times serves up one of several education stories: Seventy-seven percent of New York City eighth graders failed a standardized math exam and 65 percent failed an English test.