Word: alongs
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...homework or the class bully--in order of priority, because you'll probably be squeezed for time. Your child's teacher will start the meeting but should not dominate it. She should be prepared with samples of your child's work and should present your child's positive qualities along with the areas in which he needs to improve...
...teacher burn too much time going over each grade; you can do that on your own. The conference should focus on areas of concern--yours and the teacher's. It is helpful to take notes during the meeting and keep any schoolwork the teacher passes along, in case amnesia strikes...
...unless one refers to the highly specialized, arbitrary, narrowly defined and largely learned skills measured by American-designed IQ tests. (Where, for example, are skills in second-language acquisition or the physics of a thrown object, both essential skills in our history?) Why would genetic intelligence have evolved strictly along the lines of IQ tests? Since most human family lines have become literate only in this century, how can we argue that literate tests provide a fair measure of evolved skills? MARK NATHAN COHEN Distinguished Teaching Professor State University of New York Plattsburgh...
That said, Paul Romer, professor of economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and an expert in economic-growth theory, specifically warns against a "technological determinism"--a belief that technological progress will continue along a fixed trajectory regardless of the choices people make. He predicts that "the Internet will reshape society, but also that society will reshape the Internet through its decisions about taxation, antitrust policy, support for new types of standards organization, protection of privacy and intellectual property, and the regulation of bandwidth connections to the home...
That's because every shopper's click provides data, Brooks says. And in the past eight months, he has used that data, along with information from focus groups, to redesign his site five times. Brooks is dubious that a brick-and-mortar retailer can adapt as quickly to consumer needs. "My sense of time is compressed," he says. "For someone who has spent 25 years as a retailer to adopt this speed will be very tough...