Word: english
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Born in Poland, Chall moved to New York at seven, speaking only Yiddish. She learned English and over the next few years taught her parents how to read in English...
Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan '02, a Crimson editor, is an English concentrator in Lowell House...
...organization prints all literature, including pamphlets, newspapers and rally signs, in three languages--English, Spanish and Haitian/Creole...
...year's eighth grade test results, many students will not be able to raise their scores enough over the next three years even to reach the "needs improvement" level. Last year, 40 percent of students scored in the "failing" category on the math section, while 13 percent failed the English portion. If these same students took the test tomorrow, they would not receive their diplomas...
...students who will be clawing for their passing grade were first exposed to this type of test in eighth grade, and their low scores did not come as a great shock. The standardized frameworks for English and math, on which the test is based, were completed only a couple of years ago. Since they were distributed, teachers have been expected to adapt to these frameworks, and students have tried valiantly to mold their answers to the format that the MCAS encourages. However, the timetable has been too short, and it is the students who are being shortchanged...