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Word: mastering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...oldest son, Grant, began his education at a public school in St. Louis, but his parents removed him after six weeks when they decided the education there was "very rote and uncreative." Mother Micki Colfax, who has a master's from the London School of Economics, says she was happier with Grant's next school, a private alternative education school, but decided to begin teaching at home when they moved to California...

Author: By Nara K. Nahm, | Title: Homeschoolers Are at Home at Harvard | 3/16/1989 | See Source »

...were all learning new things together," Micki Colfax says. "It was a challenge we thought we could handle...If there was something in the day we felt we couldn't master, we would just turn around and try it the next...

Author: By Nara K. Nahm, | Title: Homeschoolers Are at Home at Harvard | 3/16/1989 | See Source »

Yesterday, I made an appointment to talk with the NCAA basketball tournament master...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Praying to the Tourney Gods | 3/16/1989 | See Source »

...master's choice eventually faded out as the arbiter for housing assignments...

Author: By Michael S. Berk, | Title: Moving Beyond Barons to a Computer Age | 3/15/1989 | See Source »

...computer system, programmed to diversify the Houses by evenly distributing students according to field of concentration, rank group, high school background and master's preference, resulted in fewer than half of all freshmen receiving their first choice. Fifteen percent were denied all their top five choices...

Author: By Michael S. Berk, | Title: Moving Beyond Barons to a Computer Age | 3/15/1989 | See Source »

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