Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...takes care to point out the significance of every purchase to customers. For example, the purchase of one card will buy enough vaccine to immunize seven children against measles. The purchase of two packs of greeting cards will buy a large chalkboard and school supplies for a developing nation classroom...
...wanted to focus on art and math," Kay said. "We considered chaos, music and math and ended up with tessellations in the art category of the competition. It is a subject of some usefulness in geometry and one that most people learn in the classroom...
...holidays are brutal," says Flo Mondanaro, a third-grade teacher in Wappingers Falls, N.Y., who is trying to curb an expensive Beanie Baby craze in her classroom. "But the issue of kids' understanding the value of a dollar comes up year round...
...political spectrum increasingly shut out dissenters? That would not only threaten the free discourse that makes universities special places; it would also accomplish little except to further strengthen the prevailing opinions of the masses. If you want to see affirmative action reinstated or abortion banned, leave the classroom behind and work on changing the minds of the voters...
There were Republicans this year who got it. Texas Governor George W. Bush, the (very) early G.O.P. front runner for the 2000 presidential race, is so intent on classroom issues he's done everything short of write his agenda on a chalkboard. But for the most part, it was Democrats who could talk the talk in '98, just as it was Republicans who sounded most plausible on things like budget cutting and welfare reform...