Word: naber
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...schools that failed under the new federal criteria. That public branding, along with the threat of new sanctions, layered on the anxiety. "When [Franklin] was listed in the Des Moines (Iowa) Register as a failed school, it became a slap in the face," says fourth-grade teacher Randy Naber...
Watching his fourth-graders take the test last year, Naber paced the aisles like a nervous parent. "When a wrong answer was put down, I just felt this tightening in my body, and I'd just walk away and think, 'Oh, no!'" he remembers...
...weeks later, the test results came in, and the teachers happily swarmed Collinson's office to see the improved scores. But the triumph was complicated. "There are parts of [No Child Left Behind] that are positive and good," says Naber, "but there's a huge portion that's horrible." The casualties include social studies, creative writing and teacher autonomy. "They're not learning civics, history, geography--a lot of essential skills that they're going to need to be good democratic citizens," says fifth-grade teacher Shane Williams. The fourth grade used to spend a year on states' history, geography...
...minutes into the second half, Crimson sophomore Katie Shaughnessy scored to tie the game at 4-4. Thirty-six seconds later, Fay Naber answered with a goal to put UMass back on top. And eight seconds after that, senior Lauren Corkery took converted on a Harper pass to pull the Crimson even...