Word: maths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proposal is filled with ways to let states use federal education dollars more freely, including passing them along to parents in the form of vouchers for private or charter schools. But in exchange, Bush demanded mandatory state testing from grades three to eight and participation in standardized national math and science tests - a big footprint of federal interference that orthodox Republicans abhor. Bush, however, figures that a bit of Big Brother can be useful, and he figures parents, who tend to put their kids? futures ahead of slash-and-burn ideology, feel the same way. To win, Bush?d have...
...Hopefully you'll follow the latter course, the course also the course less taken (kind of like Math 25). I, for instance, might take a swing dance class instead, or perhaps just shake my booty all night long at a long parade of formals in the spring. Or perhaps I'll simply continue to irritate my roommates by asking them to teach me that move just one more time...
...impressing their core TF's with astute comments and published papers, should impart some of that knowledge to their lesser-blessed friends. Orientation for "On-Call" Peer tutors begins in the fall including: "Program I Award Peer Tutors" with a commitment of 45 hrs. per year (usually chemistry, economics, math, and physics) and make $700 per year; "Program II On-Call Tutors" tutor in a wide variety of courses and amount of work they do depends upon availability, $12 per hour; "Program III ESL Tutors" work on language skills primarily with graduate students for whom English is their second language...
...with the words of my senile yet seemingly credible eighth grade math teacher Mrs. Kelly, I'd have to agree that "the more senses you bring into the learning process, the more fruitful will be the learning." Marking up textbooks, thus, is not a malicious act of destruction. Rather, marginalia are a personal art form wherein highlighting, underlining and even doodling trigger specific parts of your brain. The fact remains that we don't just remember ideas; we remember colors, tastes and sounds. Bet you still remember those magenta koolats you wore to the 6th grade dance. For shit...
...unfair to gage student interest by looking at how many people decided not to do their Math 21 problem set and come on out," Lewis said...