Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They teach you how to write in tenth grade, but then you don't get to exercise it enough," is an oft-heard lament; so is "They don t push you enough." Senior Brenda Steward is having no trouble fielding trigonometry, chemistry and British literature along with a 30-hour-a-week waitress job at a local restaurant called the Green Bandit. Says she: "Teachers don't assign homework; they don't believe in it." (The teachers' version, however, is that many students will not do homework when it is assigned.) Adds Senior Dennis Campbell: "It's so easy...
FRANCE. French secondary education tends to be much more grueling than the U.S. version. Primary school ends at age eleven or twelve, when students enter a college d'en-seignement secondaire-roughly equivalent to a junior high school. During the first year, they shoulder a set 27-hour-per-week load: five hours of French, three each of math, a foreign language, history, geography, civic education and economics, two hours of aesthetics and two of technical education. Later, they begin a second foreign language; the first one is typically studied for seven years...
Homework commands three hours a night. For those who do not leave the academic track for a technical one, the system culminates in a stiff national baccalaureat, composed of four-hour tests in each subject and an oral final. On average, only 67% of students who take the exam-mandatory for acceptance to college-manage to pass...
...current policy charges students between $4 and $16 an hour for courts, depending on the time of day. Otherwise, they can buy contracts ranging from $200 to $400 to use courts for 32 90-minute periods. Unlike last year, students can not play for free in the mornings...
...mile per hour wind, the Radcliffe runners were faster than the women of any other Ivy League college for the second straight season. No other team has held the title, since this marks only the second year of the women's Ivy championship...