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Show A-11 The Park Record Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, July 15-18, 2006 Finding their rhythm ENTER TO WIN Two ROUNDTRIP AIRLINE TICKETS ON DELTA! T he junior drill learn at Treasure Mountain International Middle School poses with their best team In camp trophy. The team went to dance camp from July 5-7. Top row (I to r) Belle Arnone, Courtney Schnieder, and Amanda Gold. Middle: Teara Adams. Bottom (I to r) Cassfe Meyers and Emily Leslie. Schnieder also won first runner up, best dancer for grades 7-12. J W GXy, Wks* Ufa HecU StyJU FINDING This Week's Clue u1They gave him 30 pieces of..." Visit www.premlertravelonllne.com, or call our office for bonus clues. Contest entry form and rules available online. No purchase Is required. Wlmintlie Wotidcb YouwwttoGo? TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR MARKET ENJOY ALL SEASONS CALL JUDY NOWLIN FOR EXPERT ADVICE ABOUT PARK CITY & DEER VALI.FY REAL ESTATE our corporate travel department will exceed your company's expectations! we have discounted domestic and international, coach and first class airfare! COURTESY OF SHEILA KIRST PREMI ER TRAVEL \Xforld Bankfellsshort on literacy Instead of focusing on boosting enrollment in primary schools, the World Bank should pay may more attention to whether children can read, the bank's internal watchdog said Thursday. Only 20 percent of the primary education projects funded by the bank have an explicit objective to help children improve learning skills such as reading and writing, the bank's Independent Evaluation Group said in a report "From Schooling Access to Learning Outcomes - An Unfinished Agenda." The report recommends that countries, the World Bank and its development partners give the same emphasis to learning as to access, so that increased spending on education does more to reduce poverty. "Countries and the World Bank have done well in making primary education more accessible to children, including the disadvantaged, but there has not been nearly enough emphasis on whether children are improving their basic skills," said Vinod Thomas, who heads the group. "There must be continued efforts to provide more children with access to school, and at the same time to also ensure that learning actually takes place.." he said, presenting the 123-page report. Thomas said G-8 leaders meeting in Russia this weekend must support investments in getting all of the world's children into school and also in ensuring that they complete school with the knowledge and skills required in an increasingly complex world. "Providing access for all and at the same time improving learning achievements will likely raise the unit costs of primary education," he said, "but this is a choice that must be made for equipping the next generation of citizens and to live productive and rewarding lives." The report said an estimated 103 million 6-11 year olds in developing countries, or about one fifth of the total, were still not in school in 2001. Two-thirds of oul-of-school children were girls, a share unchanged from almost a decade before. Tens of millions of children drop out before completely primary school, the study said. Of those who com- plete, fewer than half acquire satisfactory levels of knowledge and skills. For the evaluation, the banks researchers reviewed more than 700 primary education projects from 1990 onward. They found that 69 percent of bank projects designed to improve access to education succeeded in achieving their expansion goals. 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