Word: districters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kids don't always come up with the same answers that adults would, but that's fine. Says Shawn Ford, 39, a foreign-language teacher who coaches two teams in Wisconsin's Kaukauna school district: "It's sometimes frustrating, but it's also fun to watch the kids come up with amazingly creative ideas." And thanks to the rules, credit for the final product--and for meeting the challenges of getting half a dozen or so individuals to organize themselves into a smoothly running team--goes directly to the OMers. "It really feels good," says John, "to know...
Story Street will be part of the new 'historic district' in Cambridge, and Landis said this makes it even more important for the area to be protected from large trucks...
...National Research Council last year found that nearly 20% of American students have been held back at some point in their childhood. (Among blacks and Hispanics the figure is close to 50%.) Just how high do we want the percentages to go? This year the Harvey-Dixmoor school district in Illinois tried to require eighth-graders to pass the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills before they could go on to high school. Of 172 students, three-quarters flunked. After realizing the impracticality of flunking so many (and withstanding a shower of complaints from furious parents), the school board...
...planet, thousands of astounded people wrote to him. "I thank God," wrote a 68-year-old lesbian, "I have lived long enough to see my kind emerge from the shadows and join the human race." Sputtered another writer: "Maybe, just maybe, some of the more hostile in the district may take some potshots at you--we hope...
...meantime: After graduation, Horn will cross the Atlantic to study at Cambridge University on a scholarship. Schulman will clerk for the Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court in Boston...