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...test results for both students and school, there is a tendency to "teach to the test," emphasizing narrowly focused drills rather than broader--and ultimately more useful--education. "Believing we can improve schooling with tests is like believing we can fatten cattle by weighing them," says Monty Neill of FairTest, a Cambridge, Mass., advocacy group...
...Navy program, of disturbing my slumbers, but he has denied this. And although uncertainties most of us would face at 18-plus were with us all the time, there were still pleasures to be explored. There were wonderful stage productions at the Brattle Theatre, of which Engene O'Neill's "the Hairy Ape" still rings vivid in memory. And at the Kenmore cinema I saw my first films with subtitles. (The foreign films at home tended to be made by Frank Buck or Martin and Osa Johnson and to feature gorillas and large snakes...
...play originally opened in the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Conn., and then played at the McCarter Theater Company in Princeton, N.J., before reaching Broadway...
However, the Tigers lost many of their best players to graduation, including goaltender Erin O'Neill and attackers Abigail Gutstein and Lisa Rebane, the latter of whom was the 1996 Ivy League Player of the Year. Returning is junior Cristi Samaras, whose 72 overall points led the Ivies last year, and senior Carter Marsh, both of whom were First Team...
...haven't really even talked about it yet," says Alison M. O'Neill '00. "I know that we have to hand in the forms soon, because I have a potential blockmate who keeps reminding me. I'm honestly more inclined to let her handle...