Summary: Stories: 1) New Reading Standards Aim To Prep Kids For College — But At What Cost? 2) A Bagpipe-Slinging Spaniard Finds A Home In New York Jazz 3) How Did Tacoma, Wash., Get To Be America's 'Gayest City'? 4) U.K. Asks Students To Learn Poetry 'By Heart,' Not By Rote 5) Jin, 'The Chinese Kid Who Raps,' Grows Up 6) Former Sox Manager Reflects On Turbulent Tenure
