Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first thing is a "lack of coordination." In ninth grade, Fallows realized he wasn't cut out for basketball or soccer. Still determined to play something, he stumbled across a sport called crew...
...Gardner is first to decide on the facts and procedures a teacher wants a student to understand, and then to figure out how best to present this information, given the student's strengths and weaknesses. Jean McKibben, a fifth-grade teacher at Coyote Creek, provided an example of such an approach when she described a project her students did about the European settlement of the Americas. Among other things, she wanted them to learn about the boats that were used...
...stocks, to pros whose sophisticated strategies for dealing with risk have come unglued. The trend is very good for safe havens like T-bonds (zeros or plain old bonds) or even tax-free municipal bonds, which now offer enticing yields. It means that relative to junk and high-grade corporate bonds, emerging- market stocks and bonds, and even U.S. stocks, T-bonds will attract more money. Their yields must be driven so low that riskier assets finally look preferable again. And that could be low indeed, given the bloodletting under way on Wall Street...
...sooner or later going to come to accusations about teenage flings with farm animals. In a tightly contested congressional race taking place in a rural district, the challenger just might dredge up one of the incumbent's high school classmates who, still embittered by some perceived slight in 11th grade, is willing to go to the local newspaper with an unflattering portrait of what the now august Congressman was like at 17: "Why, we used to say he would have shown up at the junior prom with a sheep if he'd been able to find one that could...
...first time Williams, 26, has moved an audience to tears. The son of a pastor and a teacher, he began acting in a third-grade production of Julius Caesar and knew he had found his calling. Two years later, he wrote his first poem, influenced by early "big word" rapper T La Rock. But it wasn't until grad school that he attempted to meld his dramatic training with spoken-word performances. Kicking around the improv poetry circuit in Manhattan, he met Levin and landed the main role in Levin's loosely scripted, no-budget feature about victims of unjust...