Word: edwardes
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...editor's hospitality with one more quotation. It is a stanza that I would have been proud to have written, and it states a profound truth about the human condition in the simplest of words. It is taken from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur, translated by Edward Fitzgerald...
...Rustad, of the Minneapolis school district, where children who "fail" kindergarten are placed in transitional classes. Defenders of the Georgia test policy point out that the CAT is not the only tool used to determine who passes and who stays behind: the kindergarten teachers' recommendations are given equal weight. Edward F. Zigler, Sterling Professor of Psychology at Yale, nonetheless worries about the lasting impact of flunking a formalized test: "If a child at five is given the message that he or she is a failure, a self-fulfilling prophecy may be perpetrated." And he offers what many colleagues may regard...
Along with the support of his working-class constituents, Vellucci has actively sought backing from political colleagues in Boston and Washington. He said he has received endorsements from U.S. Reps. Edward Markey and Barney Frank, both liberal Democrats from Eastern Massachusetts...
...name of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 also appears on invitations to a Thursday night fundraising dinner for Vellucci...
...Conant Fellows are: Christopher A. Affleck, Edward Doherty, Caroline Hunter, Susan Fleming, Ruben Stern and Ramona E. Paige...