Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revised test will eliminate a section of multiple choice grammar and syntax problems, replacing it with a 30-minute essay that will not be scored by the testing service but instead sent directly to colleges. In addition, a math section will be replaced by an abstract reasoning section that will better represent the type of skill a law student would have to possess, Barher said...
Even from his grammar school days, academics never challenged Reed. Exploiting the elective system's flexibility and confining his studies (when he found time for them) to literature, composition and ancient history, he avoided all natural sciences and social sciences--a seemingly odd twist for someone who, only a few years later, would find no other cause but politics worth the effort. This seeming apathy prompted his apparent decision not to join in Harvard's Socialist Club, a serious organization created for the discussion of both the theory and practice that would put control of popular institutions under the control...
...place for obscure theory, which can be introduced later, when students know how to use algebra well enough to profit from it. "Algebra is the basic language of all mathematics beyond arithmetic," he says. In his view, today's puzzled students do not really master the introductory grammar. They must first become fluent with fundamentals...
According to Klein's proposal, Cambridge students would use LOGO not only for programming, but also as a tool for problem-solving. Students would then apply their skills in problem-solving to other areas, he said, particularly writing and grammar...
...electronic babble and self-actualization, people sometimes fall silent. Their clothes, on the other hand, never shut up. In her first work of nonfiction, Novelist Alison Lurie contends that clothing even has a complete grammar, a complex syntax and a large vocabulary. The accent, however, is rarely standard English. In Lurie's view, our apparel often speaks in the spicy euphemisms of a stand-up comic or trumpets the dim promises of a politician. The author has previously parodied social-and sexual-intercourse in her novels (The War Between the Tates, The Nowhere City, Real People and Only Children...