B8 WEATHER Washington area today
The Capital Weather Gang’s forecast Sunny skies rule Friday and humidity
levels remain quite comfortable. Light winds from the north should be enough to keep people from overheating, even with highs in the mid- to upper 80s.
For the latest updates, visit the Capital Weather Gang blog:
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The Region Today Today’s Pollen Index
Mold Trees Weeds Grass Moderate
Low Low
Harrisburg Hagerstown
88/61 86/63
Baltimore 87/63
Washington 88/67
Richmond Charlottesville
87/59 88/64
Norfolk 82/66
Blue Ridge
•Today, mostly sunny. High 80-88. Wind south- east 3-6 mph. •Tonight, mainly clear. Low 55-65. Wind, light, variable. •Saturday, mostly sunny, warm, humid. High 81-95. Wind south 4-8 mph. •Sunday, partly sunny, thunderstorms possible. High 82-92.
Boating Forecast »
Virginia Beach 83/63
Recreational Forecast Atlantic beaches
•Today, sunny. High 77-83. Wind east 6-12 mph. •Tonight, mainly clear. Low 61-66. Wind south-southwest 3-6 mph. •Saturday, mostly sunny. High 80-86. Wind south 6-12 mph. •Sunday, partly sunny, humid, afternoon thun- derstorms possible. High 87-94.
Upper Potomac River: Today, sunny.
Wind east 5-10 knots. Waves 1 foot or less. Visibility unrestricted. Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, sunny. Wind east 5-10 knots. Waves 1 foot on the lower Potomac and 1-2 feet on the Chesapeake Bay. Visibility unrestricted. River Stages: The river stage at Little Falls will be 3.2 feet today, remaining nearly steady Saturday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.
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Annapolis 84/67
Ocean City 78/61
Dover 82/62
Low
Ultra-Violet Index Air Quality Index
8 out of 11+, Very High
Yesterday’s main offender: Today: Moderate
Particulates, 48 The higher the UV Index number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Philadelphia 88/65
North
KEY» Temperature
100s°+ 90s° 80s° 70s° 60s° 50s° 40s° 30s° 20s° 10s° 0s° -0s°
-10s°+ Precipitation
Showers Rain T-Storms Flurries Snow Ice
Nation
City Today Albany, NY
Albuquerque 95/64/s Anchorage 60/50/c Atlanta 94/73/t Austin 95/73/s Baltimore 87/63/s Billings, MT
Birmingham 95/73/t
85/60/pc 89/66/pc 95/65/pc 63/51/pc 92/72/t 96/73/s 90/68/s
70/47/pc 77/53/pc 96/74/t
Bismarck, ND 70/52/c 78/55/pc Boise 82/56/s Boston 86/66/s
81/54/pc 86/64/s
Buffalo 84/66/pc 88/61/t Burlington, VT 86/59/s 88/65/pc Charleston, SC 94/74/t 91/74/t Charleston, WV 90/64/s 95/67/s Charlotte 91/69/pc
93/68/t
Cheyenne, WY 81/46/s 77/51/pc Chicago 91/74/t Cincinnati 92/68/s Cleveland 86/68/s Dallas 98/79/s Denver 88/52/s Des Moines
88/61/t
95/69/pc 88/64/t 98/77/s 87/57/pc
90/64/t 82/65/pc
Detroit 89/71/pc 90/63/t El Paso
101/74/s 98/76/pc
Fairbanks, AK 63/45/c 68/52/c Fargo, ND
Hartford, CT 86/61/s 90/64/s Honolulu 87/75/s Houston 94/76/s Indianapolis 92/71/pc Jackson, MS
96/72/t 96/72/t
Jacksonville, FL 94/73/t 90/72/t Kansas City, MO 96/72/pc 86/71/t Las Vegas
98/71/s 97/72/s
87/75/s 94/76/s 93/68/t
74/55/c 77/56/pc
Tomorrow City Today Little Rock
Los Angeles Tomorrow
Louisville 92/73/s Memphis 96/77/t Miami 92/79/t Milwaukee 88/72/t Minneapolis 84/60/t Nashville 96/72/t
97/75/s 97/74/s 75/60/pc 75/60/pc 97/75/pc 97/78/s 90/77/pc 85/60/pc 81/60/pc 96/72/s
New Orleans 94/77/t 93/77/t New York City 85/71/s 85/70/s Norfolk 82/66/s
86/72/s
Oklahoma City 96/74/s 98/74/s Omaha 93/62/t Orlando 94/75/t Philadelphia 88/65/s Phoenix 105/75/s Pittsburgh 85/63/s
Portland, ME 84/60/s 81/60/s Portland, OR
84/67/t 92/73/t 90/70/s 104/73/s 90/67/pc
71/55/pc 63/54/sh
Providence, RI 84/63/s 88/64/s Raleigh, NC Reno, NV
Richmond 88/64/s Sacramento 82/51/s St. Louis
96/77/t 95/76/t
St. Thomas, VI 89/80/sh 88/80/sh Salt Lake City 83/57/s 88/56/s San Diego
San Francisco 65/52/pc 64/52/s San Juan, PR 89/79/sh 89/77/t Seattle 71/52/pc 65/53/sh Spokane, WA 71/51/pc 80/51/t Syracuse 84/62/pc Tampa 92/76/t Wichita 98/73/s
70/61/pc 67/60/pc
92/69/pc 92/69/pc 81/50/s 77/49/s 92/72/s 78/51/s
S
KLMNO Today Sunny, warm
88° 67°
Wind east 4-8 mph
American Forecast
FOR NOON TODAY
Seattle Portlan
SeattlSeattle Portland
San Francisco Los Angele
San Francisc Los Angeles
Fronts Cold
Warm Stationary
Pressure Centers
High Low Key » s-Sunny, pc-Partly Cloudy, c-Cloudy, r-Rain, sh-Showers, t-Thunderstorms, sf-Snow Flurries, sn-Snow, i-Ice. World City Today
Addis Ababa 74/58/t 74/59/t Amsterdam 66/46/pc Athens 92/75/s Auckland 62/49/sh Baghdad 110/81/s Bangkok 92/80/r Beijing 84/73/c Berlin 75/50/pc Bogota 66/47/t Brussels 72/44/pc
82/72/t
Tomorrow City Today Lisbon 76/61/s
60/47/sh 90/71/s 61/50/c 116/82/s 92/80/t 93/70/s 66/48/c 66/49/t
60/41/sh
Buenos Aires 57/52/c 57/41/pc Cairo 104/76/s 103/81/s Caracas 83/72/t Copenhagen 66/51/pc
66/50/sh
Dakar 79/69/pc 83/74/s Dublin 68/52/pc Edinburgh 62/43/pc Frankfurt 73/51/sh Geneva
65/57/r 68/52/r
Ho Chi Minh City 90/77/sh 90/78/r Hong Kong
Islamabad 113/80/s Istanbul 82/66/pc Jerusalem 86/64/s Johannesburg 55/32/s Kabul 97/58/s
64/48/pc 58/47/pc 65/49/sh 62/49/r
Ham., Bermuda 81/72/s 81/72/sh Helsinki 63/50/pc
89/81/pc 90/82/pc 117/83/s 84/70/s 84/62/s 58/32/s 101/59/s
Kingston, Jam. 89/79/r 89/79/sh Kolkata 98/87/t Lagos 87/75/t Lima 70/58/s
99/89/sh 85/73/r
70/56/pc
90/63/pc 91/76/t 97/74/s
NOTE: These are the predicted high/low temperatures and forecasts, through 5 p.m. Eastern time.
Yesterday’s extremes (Continental U.S. only)
High: 106° Pecos, Texas Low: 16° Bodie State Park, Calif.
SOURCES:
AccuWeather.com; Walter Reed Army Medical Center (pollen data) ; Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments; American Lung Association; National Weather Service.
London 72/52/sh Madrid 78/57/sh Manila 93/78/sh Mexico City
Montreal 84/66/s Moscow 65/48/c Mumbai 86/77/r Nairobi 81/58/c New Delhi
82/65/s
Tomorrow 79/61/s
66/45/pc 78/53/pc 86/78/t
73/55/t 79/55/t 86/68/t 70/52/s 86/78/t 76/60/r
109/87/pc 110/88/pc
Oslo 65/45/sh 62/39/c Ottawa
84/62/t
Paris 75/57/pc 69/46/c Prague 72/57/sh
64/45/c
Rio de Janeiro 85/71/pc 86/73/s Riyadh 105/84/pc 105/84/s Rome 82/61/s Santiago 50/36/r
San Salvador 87/74/t 85/73/t Sarajevo
82/50/c
Seoul 91/71/r Shanghai 84/71/pc Singapore 88/78/t Stockholm 63/49/r Sydney 63/41/s Taipei 91/79/sh Tehran 95/79/s Tokyo 75/72/r Toronto 80/67/s Vienna 75/59/r
79/51/t
87/71/pc 85/71/pc 88/79/sh 64/48/pc 65/44/s 91/77/sh 95/79/s 81/74/r 86/61/t
68/59/sh
Warsaw 76/58/sh 70/54/sh Yerevan 95/63/pc 96/64/s
The world (excluding Antarctica)
High: 121° Al Hofuf, Saudi Arabia Low: 8° Summit Station, Greenland
Rise Set
74/58/sh 55/32/pc
Los Angeles Phoenix Phoenix Dalla
Houston Mo
HoustoHouston Monterre Monterrey nterrey Dallas Dallas San Francisco Portland Calga Calgary Calgary Winnipe Helena
Salt City
Salt La
Lake Ci
Lake City
ke Denver Denve Denver Helena
Rapid Ci
Rapid City
City
Mpls.-Mpls.- St. Pau
St. Paul Mpls.-
St. Paul ChiChicag Columbus Columbus St. LouiSt. Louis St. Louis Atlant New OrleanOrleans New Orleans ew Atlanta Atlanta Charleston Charlesto Tamp Miami Miami Tampa Tampa Charleston Chicago cago Washingto Washington Washington Winnipeg Winnipeg Ottaw Ottawa ttawa Boston Boston Bosto New Yor New York ew York Philadelphia Philadelphia Saturday Mostly sunny, hot
91° 73°
Wind south 7-14 mph Sunday Storms possible
94° 70°
Wind west-northwest 8-16 mph
Monday Sunny, hot
93° 70°
Wind east-northeast 6-12 mph Tuesday Storms possible
92° 74°
Wind south 8-16 mph
FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 2010
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Official weather data Reagan
Temperature High Low
Normal Record high Record low
87° at 2:07 p.m. 72° at 5:00 a.m. 84°/66° 95° in 1991 50° in 1926
Precipitation Past 24 hours Total this month Normal month to date Total this year Normal to date
Relative humidity Max. Min.
Trace 0.83” 1.79” 12.56” 17.82”
81% at 5:00 a.m. 36% at 4:00 p.m.
Barometric pressure High Low
Temperature trend
40° 60° 80° 100° 120°
PAST TEN DAYS
0" 1" 2" 3" 4" 5" 6"
Normal TODAY TEN-DAY FORECAST
Precipitation almanac, 2009 - 2010 Actual
29.94” 29.90”
Actual and f or ecast
THROUGH 5 P.M. YESTERDAY BWI
Dulles
84° at 2:03 p.m. 67° at 3:12 a.m. 83°/60°
92° in 1994 46° in 1980
0.01” 0.53” 2.38”
17.24” 19.19”
96% at 2:00 a.m. 43% at 2:00 p.m.
29.96” 29.91”
Normal Record
88° at 2:27 p.m. 69° at 4:41 a.m. 83°/61°
96° in 1939 47° in 1964
None 1.04” 1.96” 18.65” 19.27”
89% at 4:00 a.m. 35% at 5:00 p.m.
29.92” 29.88”
Apparent Temperature:
86°
(Comfort index com- bines temperature and humidity.)
Cooling
degree days An index of fuel con- sumption indicating how many degrees the average tempera- ture rose above 65 for the day. If a day’s average temperature were 75, there would be 10 ‘degree days’ for the date. Thursday ............ 15 This month....... 230 This season ...... 471 Normal to yesterday ........ 267 Last season ...... 248
J J A S O N D J F M A M
Today’s tides High tides are in bold face Washington Annapolis Ocean City Norfolk
1:16 a.m. 8:25 a.m. 1:34 p.m. 8:46 p.m. 4:41 a.m. 10:34 a.m. 5:13 p.m. 11:35 p.m. 12:38 a.m. 7:08 a.m. 1:15 p.m. 7:33 p.m. 2:40 a.m. 8:56 a.m. 3:18 p.m. 9:31 p.m.
Point Lookout 12:49 a.m. 6:38 a.m. 1:21 p.m. 7:39 p.m. Moon phases
June 19 First Quarter
June 26 Full
July 4 Last Quarter
Solar system
Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus 5:42 a.m.
8:36 p.m.
12:44 p.m. 12:22 a.m.
4:58 a.m. 7:40 p.m.
8:37 a.m. 11:08 p.m.
11:17 a.m. 12:30 a.m.
1:28 a.m. 1:30 p.m.
1:05 p.m. 1:29 a.m.
1:23 a.m. 1:26 p.m.
July 11 New
A school hustles to make the grade
t.c. williams from B1
“T.C. Williams is a school with a proud, proud history. But we know, where we are is not where we need to be,” Duncan said in a telephone interview. “I’m abso- lutely confident that what will happen for kids this fall and the following fall at T.C. will be much better than it is today.” Obama’s initiative is intended to rejuvenate struggling schools, elementary and secondary alike. Federal spending has generally flowed to lower grades, on the theory that earlier intervention will yield a bigger payoff. But high dropout rates have led federal of- ficials to conclude that the solu- tion for failing high schools is more than starting early. T.C. Williams, with 2,900 stu- dents on two campuses, is one of the Washington region’s largest high schools. It has never met goals set under the 2002 No Child Left Behind law, because too many special education or minor- ity students have failed standard- ized state math and reading tests. One of three Hispanic students
at the school fails to graduate on time. For African American stu- dents, the rate is one in four. Half of special education students test- ed passed math exams last year, far below the state average. Pass rates for black and Hispanic stu- dents trailed those for white stu- dents by 10 percentage points in reading and 20 points in math. The school’s white students, who account for about 20 percent of enrollment, are the only racial group that consistently outper- forms its peers across the state, multiple school system analyses have found. Ronald Ferguson, di- rector of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University, said T.C. Williams fits a pattern often found in close-in suburbs with racially and economically di- verse populations: The success of some students overshadows the failure of others. Such schools “usually hover at a level of per-
DAYNA SMITH FOR THE WASHINGTON POST A group meets in the “Transformation Situation Room” at T.C. Williams High.
formance that is okay, but not great,” Ferguson said. “They don’t get caught in the net.”
Sherman, despite the questions he posed in his letter to Obama, calls the label a gift that will lead to overdue changes. “I don’t know of a better place in America to take on this challenge,” he told the faculty in May.
One night in early June, more than 60 teachers, counselors and parents came to a Vision in Ac- tion Committee meeting in the cafeteria. Tired from the long school year and shivering in the air conditioning, they wondered aloud what could make a better T.C.
What about single-sex class- rooms or psychological training for teachers? One woman sug- gested a “United Nations” hallway with bilingual signs to make im- migrant students feel more wel- come. Another volunteered to re- search a promising homeroom mentoring program in Loudoun County. Whatever course T.C. Williams
takes, it is likely to break ground. The prescription for successful high school reform on a large scale is still unwritten. “The high school challenge is phenomenal,” said Jen Shea, a program manager at Mass In- sight, based in Boston, a school reform consultant. “If you get to ninth grade and you have a class of students who can’t read, you need a lot of intense support. . . . We are dealing with years and years of educational neglect.” The Obama administration laid
out four models to qualify for the grants. The most controversial is to replace at least half the school staff. Another is to convert to a charter school or hire an outside manager to run the school. A third is to shut the school down and send students elsewhere. Sherman chose a less dramatic
fourth option, which involves hir- ing a new principal and making significant changes to school cul- ture and instruction. The faculty will remain intact, though per- haps demoralized after the tu- mult of recent months. Next year, according to a pro- posal Sherman submitted for state approval, every student will have an individual academic plan with specific goals. While school systems elsewhere are slashing budgets, Alexandria will use the federal aid to hire extra counsel- ors and teachers in math and lan- guage arts. The school will open math and writing centers. Teachers will re- ceive more detailed evaluations. A new special education director is already working to move more students with disabilities into challenging, mainstream classes. The plan includes summer
training for teachers, research trips to observe strategies in other schools, and consultants, includ- ing Ferguson and Linda Darling- Hammond at Stanford University, marquee names in the education world.
Suzanne Maxey, a veteran of
Prince George’s and Montgomery county schools, will become the school’s third principal in four
years. She promises much-needed stability and a crackdown on dis- cipline problems. William Clen- daniel, who has been interim principal for two years, will retire. Teacher Sarah Kiyak, who heads the English Department, said the city has done much to provide equal opportunity for rich and poor students, by of- fering free laptops and other help. “But it’s not good enough,” she said. Her classroom has a view of a
rooftop garden, part of a recent $100 million campus renovation. Many of her students arrive with below-grade-level skills and com- plicated personal struggles. In her English 11 class, one stu- dent spent the first semester in jail. Another was expelled for sell- ing drugs. A third announced re- cently that he wants to drop out. This spring, she gave this class and her AP English students the same assignment: To identify at least one “safety” college likely to offer them admission and one that would be a stretch. The Eng- lish 11 students listed such schools as UCLA and Virginia Tech, ambitious destinations that will require some academic catch- up.
She has her own ideas about how to keep students invested in school, including offering extra- curricular activities during school hours to hook more students. “It’s sad that it’s come to the point of a . . . mandate,” she said. “But I think our school needs a shake-up.”
chandlerm@washpost.com
PETULA DVORAK
New generation of dads changes idea of family
dvorak from B1
many adoptions, but few like Braman’s. It’s not all cows and bike rides and summer cabins.
Because his children come from difficult backgrounds, Braman is also dealing with rage issues and behavioral swings that seem to come out of nowhere. One child, at 20 months old, assumed a perfect boxer’s stance when faced with a bounding dog. “I mean, a real boxer stance, spread legs, one hand cocked, ready to punch the dog in the face.” Or he gets calls from the teacher, who says the child is throwing chairs in the classroom. “I have the task of finding that sense of innocence and wonder and joy. How do I create that for them in this rough, incredible world? How can I still be the same kind of dad I had, re-create the amount of love for my kids?” There’s also the challenge of
everyday parenting: getting them out of bed, fed, dressed, dropped off at day care and school before heading to his service desk job at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Then it’s the race in reverse to do pickup, dinner, bedtime. Braman is an extreme example of the New Dad, but he is among a generation of pioneers who are changing the landscape of the American family.
Whereas our dad archetype has been a nervous man pacing in the delivery room, fumbling the newborn, clueless about the PTA and stepping forth only when it’s time to harass a prom date or coach Little League, today’s generation of fathers is more involved than any other.
Like Braman, they don’t have
fatherhood thrust upon them, they dive into their kids’ lives. It’s beyond fishing, the summer cabin and sports. The New Dad is increasingly ducking out of work early, no matter how many dude points he may lose for it, to go to parent-teacher conferences, doctor’s appointments, play dates and pickup duty. Time-use surveys tell us that
the gap in the amount of time men and women spend caring for children is closing. The Bureau of Labor Statistics American Time Use Survey for 2008 said that in cases in which a mom and a dad work full time, the mom spends 1.2 hours a day caring for a child and a dad spends 49 minutes. But statistics don’t tell the
story of a societal sea change in the ways dads are involved, the massive shift that this generation of fathers has undergone. In the past 10 days, my husband attended a kindergarten play, endured a three-day camping trip, went to two T-ball practices, two school picnics, a class birthday party, did the school pickup for both kids twice and washed their hair every bath night (his punishment for the latest egregious parking ticket). Last night, he collapsed in his recliner/king’s throne, flipped up the foot rest and proclaimed: “This week, I did more with the kids than my father did throughout my entire childhood.” He is absolutely right. Happy Father’s Day, New Dads. We’ll do the grilling tonight.
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