Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most part, though, the trip-as intended-was low-key and at times downright dull. Just as, it was noted, only a dish of spaghetti excites a Roman, it takes a good deal to turn the attention of other Europeans from their coq au vin, fish and chips or sauerbraten to any display of public fervor. It was therefore predictable that Richard Nixon's earnest pilgrimage stirred less excitement last week than the triumphant passages of his more glamorous predecessors, Eisenhower and Kennedy -or even than the European hegira early last month of Astronaut Frank Borman, fresh from orbiting...
...ghetto environments, present ghetto classrooms may add to them. A recent study by Robert Rosenthal, a Harvard psychologist, and Lenore Jacobsen, a San Francisco school principal, has indicated that teacher expectations for pupils may be a key variable in determining achievement. If this is true, a ghetto teacher's low expectations for her black students could be a self-fulfilling prophecy...
...LOW EXPECTATIONS are particularly insidious when they are coupled with the institution of "tracking" or ability grouping. Most urban schools group children according to ability as soon as they enter first grade. It doesn't take much imagination to figure out who gets placed in the low ability groups. The net effect is that the majority of black pupil are doomed to under-achieving at age six. The "poorer" first grade students cover less material than their "brighter" peers, supposedly because they are unable to handle as much...
...Cavanagh broke a two-game scoring slump at 8:32 with the first tying goal. Dave Jones slapped a low shot from the blue line and Cavanagh tapped the rebound in from the side...
...part of the M.I.T. research stoppage, a panel discussion on "The Responsibilities of Intellectuals" will be held at Rindge Tech at 8 p.m. tonight. Professors Noam Chomsky, F. E. Low, and V. F. Weisskopf of M.I.T. will be among the speakers...