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...something approaching the totality of mankind's knowledge into the home, dismantling the barriers that limited people's choices about where and what they could study. In the new global village, Barratt-Peacock wonders, how long before a teenager in Christchurch, working from the computer in his bedroom, can attain a Harvard degree? "The idea of learning only in a large, formal institution with lots of other people . . . that is going to change." It's hard for outsiders to accept home education, which challenges so many fixed ideas. Teachers teach and parents raise. School is a societal glue. Brothers...
...Shahar also said that Israel has made multiple efforts to attain peace since 1947, but that their overtures have been denied by the Arab authorities...
...Olympic-gold-medal dry spell: "Talent isn't the only thing that wins here." Proper chemistry and discipline factor into the mix as well, and Canada showed little of either against the Swiss. Canadian forward Dany Heatley put it succinctly: "Things didn't go our way." In order to attain gold, this disparate group of players will need to gel into a team in a very short time, says Quinn. And they will have to keep their emotions in check during these patriotism-charged Games and the Olympics' pressure-cooker schedule. (To make it to the final, Team Canada would...
...ended just as the genre reached its cultural zenith. Hip-hop music was no longer prominently featured in WHRB’s broadcast lineup by the mid-90s—the era that saw Tupac Shakur, Notorious B.I.G., and the “Gangsta-Funk” aesthetic attain success as pop music—and “The Dark Side” faded into obscurity. Jacoby speculates that the rapid chart ascendancy of rap music in the mid-90s was precisely why it fell out of favor with WHRB DJs. “I think the lack...
...that Cambridge measures student achievement is by comparing minorities’ test scores to those of whites. According to a report published by the school system this past December, Cambridge would attain a “standard of excellence” if there were no gap between white students and minorities on tests. The “standard of excellence” also mandates equal attendance and discipline rates across ethnic groups...