Word: deflective
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Students cited their experiences in introductory courses as particularly traumatic—saying that some male teaching fellows would drive their classes at relentless rate and would deflect questions from female students...
...goals of accountability and achievement, but given the inequalities in the system, not all schools have the means to achieve them. "A really cynical person who didn't want to spend any more money on an educational system might get parents and teachers to blame each other and deflect attention away from other imperfect parts of the system," observes Jeannie Oakes, director of the Institute for Democracy, Education and Access at UCLA...
This week, Kirshner said he plans to mount signs and station House volunteers by the checker to help “deflect anger” from uncooperative freshmen...
...shown "the way toward peace in the Middle East, can now show the way toward democracy in the Middle East." That repeated, almost word for word, a line Bush used in a 2003 speech. As Bush's speechwriters try to drive home that message, Egypt may be trying to deflect attention away from it. --By Matt Rees and Jamil Hamad
Rather than playing a man-to-man defense, the Tigers crammed in five skaters around the net to block or deflect as many shots as possible. The tight wall made it difficult for Harvard’s shooters to get good angles—and if the puck did somehow make it to net, the red-hot Gaudiel was there to stop...