Word: excels
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...most nurturing place when it comes to mental health. Amidst the myriad pressures of life here, it is easy to lose one’s way. But as a population, I think that we are predisposed to instability—the same compulsive behaviors that allow us to excel in the classroom by blocking out distractions can be easily misdirected toward other areas of life. Getting into Harvard is a mentally scarring process. Some of us are just better at hiding it than others...
...career. British students specialize early. They win university places on the basis of three written exams graded by strangers, usually teachers on holiday with a big pile to get through. To claim that the results of this process provide some self-evidently fair and complete measure of potential to excel at university, or in life, is just silly. Many American colleges happily acknowledge that once applicants reach a certain threshold of academic ability, they blend many attributes to obtain a class: geographic and racial variety, athletic and artistic ability, whether Mom or Dad is an alum. That last criterion...
...their children the best opportunities sink to Ms. Chapman’s level, many do spend significant time and money to improve their children’s standardized test scores. Their reasoning is perfectly understandable. Parents want to provide the best for their children—and children who excel in standardized tests often receive a stamp of academic excellence leading to the finest opportunities...
...education system does not change, parents must adjust their attitudes towards standardized tests. The money and time they spend on test preparations could more effectively be used in providing children with valuable experiences and priceless parental interaction. It’s deplorable if the children of the future only excel in penciling in bubble sheets...
...What Kelly had in common with the Kennedys (and not with Clooney) was a compulsion to excel, to write his own history, even if it meant rewriting others?. Turning "On the Town" into a movie, he and his team threw out most of Leonard Bernstein?s Broadway score. More daring was Kelly?s decision to restage the Jerome Robbins ballet that is at the heart of (and was the inspiration for) the original show. Darn it, he?d do his own darn ballet. Similarly, he honored and caricatured the great gallery of Impressionist paintings in the ballet for "An American...