Word: moving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Skills. Chicago's widely hailed policy aimed at ending social promotion--the practice of automatically passing students to the next grade--required her to attend summer school. At the end of it she fell short again, which meant she had to repeat eighth grade. She watched all her classmates move on to high school. "I feel really bad that I didn't make it," she said softly. "I think about that test all the time...
...enthusiasm for the hard-line approach started in Chicago. Since 1996, after Mayor Richard Daley took control of the school system and appointed his budget chief, Paul Vallas, as its chief executive, the city has used standardized-test scores to help determine whether students should move to the next grade. In the year before the new approach, less than 2% of students were forced to repeat a grade; last year close to 15% of third-, sixth- and eighth-graders were retained. The city spent $24 million last year on summer programs designed to give kids one last chance to pass...
Jennifer R. Weinberg-Wolf '99 of Quincy has hada similar experience because of randomization. Sheand 12 of her friends from Canaday Hall blockedtogether and began to move around campus in a"herd...
...Harvard then hosted George Mason in the second round for a chance to move on to the national quarterfinals. In triple overtime, Miller found the back of the net to lift the Crimson to a 2-1 victory and a match-up with national powerhouse North Carolina...
...Corkery will be back with Larson, and sophomore backs Brooke McCarthy and Ashley Mattison are poised to move into starting roles. Also ready to step up is a talented freshman class, led by forward Colleen Moore and midfielder Jennie Ghani...