Word: exam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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IMAGINE THAT YOU are sitting in a classroom in Sever Hall on the morning of a big exam. You have been tense for three days. You didn't sleep very well last night. You're rather nervous as the proctor passes out the blue books...
...Governor, Clinton has thrown most of his effort into early-childhood intervention and education. Social Security numbers are recorded on birth certificates to help trace deadbeat fathers. He increased teachers' salaries but insisted on a controversial competency exam. Parents who don't show up at teacher meetings are fined $50. Starting in 1993, failing students will not be allowed to get a driver's license. Clinton has expanded Head Start and launched school-based health clinics (where condoms are distributed, much to the outrage of the religious right). While other governors have taken rich states and made them poor, Clinton...
...Japan and Germany. The issue, says Shanker, is not job security but the ethos in countries that prize educational achievement. "Mothers and fathers in those societies know there are serious consequences for not doing well at school," he says. "In Germany, if a student doesn't pass a national exam, he can't go to college. Not here...
...faculty has an international reputation. But among students, some scholars are merely seen from a distance and are often inaccessible to students. Rosovsky, in part jest, touched on the issue of inaccessibility when he said he too had a difficult time in reaching colleagues during the reading and exam periods...
...academics committee chair, Kalkanis worked for calendar reform and successfully pressed the administration to rearrange exam schedules and extend intersession...