Word: airings
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Each project was identified through a rigid screening process by the American Institute for Research and Behavioral Sciences (AIR), Palo Alto, Calif., under contract to the Office of Education and in consultation with the National Advisory Council on the Education of Disadvantaged Children...
...programs described in the AIR report represent a sampling of the successful compensatory education programs across the Nation. An estimated 20,000 compensatory education programs are operated under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, in addition to those funded by other sources...
...AIR researchers originally identified 1,000 compensatory education programs form all parts of the country, collected details of 400, and visited 98 from which the final selections were made...
Only compensatory programs whose directors had measured achievement through standardized tests were included in the AIR study. Burt an improvement in achievement scores was not sufficient to identify a successful program. The gain had to exceed that made by a control group over the same time period or to exceed national norms...
Studying, the activity that this world wants her to want to do, might be a way of climbing out into some sort of fresh air and freedom. But the interruptions and the noise that make dorm life what it is make studying impossible. The constant noise creates a constant non-transcendant now and here. The roar of meals, the music other people use as futile anodynes for the same conditions, the telephones, the feet, the piano in the lower regions, the voices and the plumbing make the space she is sitting in come alive as a huge, swaying, indifferent body...