Word: exam
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Here, my you was a one day sojourn to Osterville, Cape Cod. Were it not for a generous offer to accompany my roommate and a classmate to the latter's home, I would have spent a post-exam weekend tired and worried sick for my grade. Instead, away from Cambridge I saw stars. Lots of them. Then there was salt march, beautiful water and even a barn-just like home...
...enrollment could drop to 13 percent; system-wide, black and Hispanic students make up 75 percent of Boston's 64,000 students. Selective public schools are often feeders into selective colleges and universities. And given the sad state of the city's public schools, for many underprivileged students these exam schools are the only means towards a quality post-secondary education...
...Cambridge resident reported that a 5'11" male wearing a blue jacket, a goatee and carrying a white bag entered an exam room at Cambridge Hospital and removed a patient's wallet that contained a Massachusetts license, credit cards, $5 in cash, and personal papers...
...ADHD diagnoses and Ritalin use over the past decade, the disorder is surprisingly ill defined. No one is sure that it's a neurochemical imbalance that can be corrected with medicine, much the way daily insulin shots help diabetics. There is no blood test, no PET scan, no physical exam that can determine who has it and who does not. For many children, Ritalin is the answer simply because it works. "It's a fixed, stable, low-dose drug," says Dr. Philip Berent, consulting psychiatrist at the Arlington Center for Attention Deficit Disorder in Arlington Heights, Ill. He argues that...
Sometimes the flooding occurs at inopportune moments, like the time students sat down to take a state-required test that determines whether they will graduate. "We went to classrooms vacuuming out with those big wet vacs," McCann recalled. "The kids were supposed to be trying to take an exam to see if they can get out of school. Well, we had to stop [the test]...and we had to move some kids out of [the] classrooms...