Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just before he arrived at the breakout discussion titled "Breaking Gossip: Matt Drudge and the Monica Lewinsky Scoop," he was logged on to his America On-Line account in the process of finalizing this week's Time cover story...
...find myself writing this piece because of my recent forays into the world of education. Last summer I taught at the Summerbridge Miami program, one of a network of programs designed to offer guidance and academic instruction to hundreds of at-risk students in America's cities. My approach to this enthusiastic group of middle school students was influenced by several motives. The most prominent of these impulses were my feelings of optimism and shameless idealism. With this attitude I prepared to take the teaching world (or Summerbridge Miami) by storm...
...found it somewhat dismaying to see that even the Summerbridge program--a program designed to teach America's students using a non-traditional method--was confined by standardized testing strictures. This fall I read an issue of Newsweek that spoke to my concerns. A flood of memories poured over me: I began to collect information from editorials, essays, novels, speeches, casual conversation and personal experience. Now, I feel compelled to contribute my viewpoints to the already volatile debate...
...America's obsession with standardized tests as the measuring stick of academic capability is at an all-time high. Now, a considerable portion of adolescent life revolves around successfully surmounting these tests. Likewise, education is increasingly involved with making students capable of passing the specific tests required by their state or region's education department. This increasing emphasis on standardized testing has had a negative effect on many aspects of American education...
...America's students are suffering the greater injustice. As America looks increasingly upon standardized testing as "the way," students watch as school districts and educators hopelessly abandon approaches and curricula germane to classroom creativity...