Steven Wyner's client, Deborah Porter, asked the Manhattan Beach district (south of Santa Monica) to give her fourth-grade son extra reading instruction and work on his socializing skills. (He would later be diagnosed with autism.) She won an administrative ruling requiring the district to provide them.

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These ribbons encourage students to take extra quizzes that have absolutely no effect on their grade.

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She hopes the extra time will help bring students up to their grade level in reading, vocabulary, math, science and life skills.

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The Grade 1 listed cathedral could now face an extra bill for several hundred thousand pounds in tax.

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That's why experts urge schools to give students with dyslexia extra time on tests, waive foreign language requirements and grade separately for creativity and spelling.

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The state gives extra money to schools that get an A or improve their grade, and children at schools that get two F grades in four years are allowed to transfer to better schools.

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But any extra Saudi oil released now will be too late in arriving and too heavy a grade to keep America's drivers happy.

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