Word: catchings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Each week, Rhee gets e-mails from superintendents in other cities. They understand that if she succeeds, Rhee could do something no one has done before: she could prove that low-income urban kids can catch up with kids in the suburbs. The radicalism of this idea cannot be overstated. Now, without proof that cities can revolutionize their worst schools, there is always a fine excuse. Superintendents, parents and teachers in urban school districts lament systemic problems they cannot control: poverty, hunger, violence and negligent parents. They bicker over small improvements such as class size and curriculum, like diplomats touring...
...time she is 11. The other child will be a year and a half below grade level--and by then it will take a teacher who works with the child after school and on weekends to undo the compounded damage. In other words, the child will probably never catch...
...declining death rate. But while the falling incidence rate suggests successful efforts at prevention, the real reasons behind the trend are not as clear-cut. Decreasing cancer rates may reflect a real reduction in cancer; they may also be a result of more frequent and effective screening, which can catch and cure pre-cancer, or they may reflect less frequent use of screens overall...
...paperbacks were a new thing. Bookshops were slow to catch on,” he says. “In the 60s we went in heavy on paper backs; that was considered innovative at the time...
...fact that the average worker now has roughly half the number of dependents to care for they did in 1976, freeing up much more disposable income. Then you have the boost of adopting new technology more or less for free from overseas companies, a phenomenon development economists cal "technology catch up." And lastly, he says, there's urbanization. Some 15 million people are currently moving to Chinese cities every year, giving the economy an enormous boost from the investment in infrastructure like roads, bridges, and hospitals...