Word: half
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feel compelled to "teach to the test," students may learn to pass the gateway exam but be left without the skills needed to progress much further. At Doolittle East in Chicago, Alfred Rembert taught a sixth-grade class this year in which all the students were repeating the grade. Half of them were promoted in January. Rembert spent most of this semester preparing the remainder for a fourth try on the Iowas. "All this focus on reading and math for the test means they are getting less of the other subjects," he says. As a result, school systems like Chicago...
...younger brother of our No. 1, Deepak Abraham, will play in the top half of the lineup, as will Dylan Patterson, an incoming freshman from Brooklyn," Wyant said...
...final home game--saw Harvard post its second victory in the Ivy, with all three seniors scoring. Senior Lauren Dahmen netted one while senior Clare Parker and Asano each turned in two goals. Freshman Heather Hussey added to the action with her 13th goal of the season in second half...
...magic ended in Hanover for the Crimson. Following a two-and-a-half week hiatus for final exams, Harvard returned to the hardwood rusty and reinjured. The Crimson lost its next three contests, and in the process it lost its leading scorer for the season in junior forward Laela Sturdy...
...week and a half leading up to the tournament, everyone was pretty excited," said women's captain Gabrielle Novacek. "Then when we got to the actual date, it looked as if some of the fire had been lost. Everyone seemed to be really tired and quite a few of our fencers had been sick...