Word: closeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...self-esteem damaged and her determination waning, Walker is close to becoming a casualty in the war on social promotion in America's public schools. The idea driving the assault--that the performance of students can be improved if schools establish standards and insist that kids meet them before moving on to the next grade--has a simple, sound-bite toughness. It appeals to parents and teachers at a time when frustration with student underachievement is boiling over. Distressing test results released this spring in states like Louisiana (where 40% of eighth-graders flunked the state's exam in math...
...appointed his budget chief, Paul Vallas, as its chief executive, the city has used standardized-test scores to help determine whether students should move to the next grade. In the year before the new approach, less than 2% of students were forced to repeat a grade; last year close to 15% of third-, sixth- and eighth-graders were retained. The city spent $24 million last year on summer programs designed to give kids one last chance to pass the Iowa test before September. It invested $10 million in hiring new teachers to tutor retained students. If test scores...
...country's first free elections in more than 40 years, opposition icon Megawati Sukarnoputri was projected to claim the biggest share of the vote ?- around 35 percent. But with the military-backed ruling party Golkar claiming a solid 20 percent and two smaller opposition parties each scoring close to that, the election may yet be up to the generals to adjudicate. The reason is that Indonesia?s president is to be elected by an assembly in which 34 percent of the seats are reserved for appointees of the military and the government, which together with Golkar?s 20 percent...
...captains Brooke Herlihy (No.2) and Stephanie Teaford (No. 3) led a talented senior class that won two championships. Ramella, Lindsay Wilber, Ilana Eisenstein, Vanessa Hoerrman, and Katie Wallach will also close the door on their Harvard careers this year...
...season began and ended on good notes. The first game of the season was a close 7-5 loss to UMass, which would prove to be Harvard's biggest nemesis of the season. This game gave Harvard great confidence heading into the season, since UMass was predicted to be the No. 1 team in Eastern region...