Word: grosse
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...economic minds like bond guru Bill Gross have been clamoring for federal action to help out the estimated 2 million people who are in danger of losing their homes. But it may take more dire circumstances to push Congress and President Bush. Here's what they've done...
...late July, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 said that Sommers would be heading “on leave” for the coming academic year, and he appointed Thomas R. Jehn, a writing instructor at Harvard since 1997, to be interim director...
Expos instructors contacted by The Crimson declined or did not return requests for comment. Gross did not respond to a request for comment, and his successor as College dean, David R. Pilbeam, declined to comment...
...average girl trying to learn at the pace of a retarded girl with an IQ of 40. Advocates for gifted kids consider one of the most pernicious results to be "cooperative learning" arrangements in which high-ability students are paired with struggling kids on projects. Education professor Miraca Gross of the University of New South Wales in Sydney has called the current system a "lockstep curriculum ... in what is euphemistically termed the 'inclusion' classroom." The gifted students, she notes, don't feel included...
...depressed adults ... who don't have friends or who find it difficult to function," she says. Actually, research shows that gifted kids given appropriately challenging environments--even when that means being placed in classes of much older students--usually turn out fine. At the University of New South Wales, Gross conducted a longitudinal study of 60 Australians who scored at least 160 on IQ tests beginning in the late '80s. Today most of the 33 students who were not allowed to skip grades have jaded views of education, and at least three are dropouts. "These young people find it very...