Word: florida
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Because of the vast amounts of information needed to analyze higher educational outcomes, most early assessment programs measured student knowledge with standardized tests such as Florida's university system's "rising junior exam," which was required of all students before they could enroll as third-year undergraduates. These basic skills tests are easy to use but draw wide criticism from educators, who argue that they trivialize higher education by not testing higher-order skills...
Legislated reforms are not popular among educators. A Florida statute which requires students to write 6000 words per month has been a frequent target. "The law was based on the observation that students don't do much writing," Adelman said. "We can't quarrel with the motivation, but whether or not the right amount is 60, 6000, or 60,000 words we don't know. The decision was arbitrary...
...family hung around South America for two years, working here and there. Finally, in June 1985, they pitched up in Florida, at Port Canaveral, with a dead engine and a new way of looking at things. They had met a lot of people along the way, Janis says, "people who just wanted to travel. They didn't want to work anymore. We started to think, hey, that's not a bad idea. I mean, who wants to work anyway? After all, we were able to travel for nearly three years, until we got here...
...proliferating; there are now about 300. Many therapists are concerned, however, about the lack of uniform training standards: the American Massage Therapy Association has approved only 51 schools. Moreover, the field is poorly regulated by outside authorities. Just 13 states have licensing requirements, and their criteria vary widely. Florida, for example, requires therapists to complete 500 hours of training, while Ohio calls for half that...
...thundered into space last week, the tall, slender rocket looked like hundreds of satellite boosters launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Despite a drizzling rain, the blast-off put a marine observation satellite into orbit without a hitch. The launch pad, though, was not in California or Florida. It was on Tanegashima Island, and the rocket bore on its side, in prominent black letters, a single word: NIPPON...