Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just such a high level of conversation at all times," said Laura Bacon '02. "The women really challenged me to think about myself and about being a leader...
...Rock and Joyner hit the road. Rock was interested in playing smaller stages, black clubs. He wanted to reconnect to audiences, to the street-level reality that had made his act funny to begin with. The result was Bring the Pain, his landmark HBO special. "He opened up his material, and it allowed a larger audience to be receptive to it," says Tim Meadows, a fellow SNL cast member. "Chris started talking about things onstage that he talked about in personal life--social and political issues...
...statistician, the study found that 20,760 K-12 home-schooled students had median scores typically in the 70th to 80th percentile. But the sample, like previous ones, was overwhelmingly white, Christian, educated and affluent--and not comparable to a control group of public school children. "Given the education level and affluence of the parents," observes Gerald Bracey, an educational analyst in Alexandria, Va., "you could say, 'Gosh, these kids could do better.'" Mitchell Stevens, who is writing Kingdom of Children: Pedagogy and Politics in the Home Schooling Movement for the Princeton University Press, concludes, "At worst, home schoolers...
...remember: the teacher's e-mail address, the school's website or which night online homework help chat will be offered. "The 1999-2000 school year will be the one where the majority of parents really feel the Internet's influence on their child's education at the everyday level," says Jonathan Carson, chairman and ceo of the Family Education Co., based in Boston, which offers an informational parenting website at familyeducation.com and a framework for local schools to create and maintain their own sites...
...possible," says Diana Phillips, director of the U.S. Department of Education's middle school initiative, Think College Early. "In many households, the idea of talking about college doesn't exist," says Phillips, whose program's goal is to let all kids, regardless of family income or their parents' educational level, know they have a chance to earn a college degree...