Word: excellence
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...home-school advocates counter that a teacher's certificate is no guarantee of success. They cite study after study showing that home-schooled children excel on standardized tests. While the national average is in the 50th percentile, the average home-schooled students register between the 65th and 80th percentiles. Nor is this unconventional background necessarily a disadvantage when students apply for college. With no grade-point averages or class ranks, no chance to edit the yearbook or captain the soccer team, home- schooled students must have top test scores to win admission to the most selective schools. But many colleges...
Although many of his friends remember Romney for his decision-making, creativity and sense of humor, some say he did not excel in any one thing...
...think women are in many subtle ways discouraged from trying to excel in math," says concentrator Daniel Grossman '95, who TFs in Math...
Rather, he said, it might be the very nature of the game itself--look at the sports that Americans excel in. You have baseball, basketball and football...
Soccer takes away the one aspect of sports that our country seems to excel in. Other nations don't produce nearly as many people who can throw a ball hard or far or who even have good throwing mechanics...