Search Details

Word: kooymans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...frustrations that homework visits upon kids can irk their parents to the point of revolt. David Kooyman, of Covina, Calif., was so incensed about his three grade-schoolers' homework load that he exacted a pledge from their teachers not to lower his kids' grades if they didn't do assignments. When the kids found themselves lost in class discussions, Kooyman reluctantly allowed them to do the homework, but he is planning to sue the school district for violating his civil rights. "They have us hostage to homework," he grumbles. "I'm 47, and I have 25-year-old teachers telling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Homework Ate My Family | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

Since 1968, Gerald Kooyman of the University of California at San Diego has studied emperor penguins, beguiling flightless birds that are dependent on Antarctic sea ice. The penguins need 255 days of sea ice in order to complete the cycle from egg laying to the stage when fledglings are hardy enough to begin their wanderings through the southern ocean. Typically, the young birds jump into the water only two weeks or so before the ice breaks up. This year, says Kooyman, the ice near Franklin Island broke up in mid-December, two weeks before the fledglings were ready to embark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANTARCTICA | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

...students, Mary Brew and Christy Kooyman, said Duke violated Title IX, a 1972 act forbidding discrimination on the basis of sex in any educational program receiving federal funds...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Students Charge Sex Discrimination | 12/13/1980 | See Source »

...Brew and Kooyman said they went directly to the Department of Education because they wanted a quick response...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Students Charge Sex Discrimination | 12/13/1980 | See Source »

| 1 |