Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proceeds of the three packed performances--which drew about 8,000 people--will go to benefit the Jimmy Fund, a supporter of the DanaFarber Cancer Institute...
...said she found their routine to be completely inappropriate for a benefit show that aims at helping children, particularly following two murders of women in the Boston area...
...their teens, American girls outperform boys. Then something changes, and boys push ahead, especially in science. Whether the cause is bias, genes or some combination, no one knows for sure. But if you can just keep the sexes apart for a while, the theory goes, girls at least may benefit. "It's good to have a safe place without the distraction of the opposite sex," says Lewinnek...
Small classes are one of many variables that make comparison difficult. While kids in the single-sex program benefit from a higher ratio of guidance counselors to students, they may suffer because many of their teachers are green, hired almost straight out of graduate school for this program. Another factor: the program aims to attract underachievers, on the theory that they have the most to gain. To sort through these conflicting elements, the district has hired statistical experts from the University of California, Berkeley...
...balance can mean many things. Even whole-language teachers now maintain that their approach is balanced, because, after all, they do address phonics, albeit in an ad hoc fashion. There are elements of phonics instruction, though, that cannot be diluted; it must be systematic and explicit, if the full benefit is to be derived from it. To deprive children of that benefit is destructive. As one of Carol Avery's fourth-graders said to her, "Writing and reading give you a life...