Word: firsts
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After her appearance at the Charles, Clinton attended another fundraiser at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston. Outside of the hotel, the First Lady was greeted by a less friendly crowd--nursing home workers accusing her fundraising sponsors of union busting...
SEIU Local 285 represents the workers of the Wingate at Wilbraham Nursing Home, which is owned by Gerald Schuster. The local charges the company with thwarting workers' attempts to negotiate a first contract at the facility...
...When first administered in April of that year, only 41 percent of test-takers passed, igniting debate throughout the Commonwealth...
Chall, who retired as a professor of education emeritus in 1991, was one of the first psychologists to talk of reading as a learning process with developmental stages...
Chall also helped shape one of the most heated arguments in elementary education. Educators have argued for decades about whether children should first learn to generally understand texts that they read or if they should concentrate on phonics, or sounding out words...