Word: barring
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...passed all the components of the TAAS; last year more than three-quarters did. During his campaign for re-election, Governor George W. Bush vowed to up the ante by holding back students who fail the TAAS. Says Bush: "In Texas we have found that when you raise the bar, people rise to the challenge...
...needs improvement" in English; half of all 10th-graders failed the math portion of the test. Governor Paul Cellucci calls the performance "unacceptable." Maybe so, but it's not surprising, says Harvard lecturer S. Paul Reville. "We were having difficulty reaching lower standards, and now we've raised the bar by a factor...
...bar been raised too high? Some teachers and parents complain that the tests are too exhaustive--and exhausting--for young students. The Massachusetts test clocked in at 16 hours, spread over several weeks. Tina Yalen, an eighth-grade civics teacher, gave her opinion of the Virginia test: "Some of it looked like Trivial Pursuit to me." More worrisome is how a 10-year-old will react if his or her result is branded with a scarlet F. Says Harvard's Reville: "An overload of negative feedback runs the risk that students are going to shut down and not make...
...Sounds impressive until you realize that the chance of finding a match made in heaven is less than 1 in 1,000. I got dozens of responses to my ad on Yahoo (which is free), but most contenders were less appealing than the last-call crowd at a singles bar. A startling number of men thought the most important thing for me to know was their waist size or the precise angle of their hairline. And there was the guy who directed me to his personal website, filled with pin-up shots, including one of him in the buff. Charming...
...tape in the VCR. Up came Microsoft's demonstration of how Felten's program to remove Internet Explorer made Windows run slower, important evidence for the defense in the ongoing antitrust suit. Almost immediately, all three were off the couch. Simultaneously, Hicks remembers, they'd spotted that the title bar was wrong, that the computer in that screenshot hadn't been "Feltenized." Upshot: Microsoft's most embarrassing week yet at the federal courthouse, as a company of 29,000 employees scrambled to produce a video that wasn't misleadingly edited. Hicks and Creath, who also have a software firm, Elysium...