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...this system children learn to read by being provided with a rich environment that stimulates them to learn the words they need. Many high-structure people, known in the trade as "pricklies," use the DISTAR program (for Direct Instruction Systems for Teaching and Remediation) developed at the University of Oregan. DISTAR sticks to phonics, a tightly programmed curriculum and lots of drill. Children learn how to form new words by sounding out letters, rather than by just recognizing familiar ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pricklies vs. Gooeys | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...seats from Republican incumbents, lost just one (the 8th Illinois District). Their tentative 51-seat gain was scattered as follows: Connecticut 2; Illinois 6; Indiana 6; Iowa 1; Kentucky 6; Maryland 2; Missouri 6; Nebraska 2; New Jersey i; New Mexico 1; North Carolina 2; Ohio 6; Oklahoma 2; Oregan 1; Pennsylvania 3; Virginia 2; West Virginia 1; Wisconsin 1. They had routed two Republican Drys (Ohio's Morgan, Illinois' Denison) who had been caught transporting liquor. They had ousted Maryland's Zihlman, known as the "Mayor of Washington" because he was chairman of the House District of Columbia Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: 72nd Made | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

...Dakota, 10 delegates, which he won "automatically" under the Richards primary law by virtue of being the only candidate for the office. The other state that Mr. Webster contested was Oregon, which, however, was won by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge '71 of Massachusetts. Mr. Webster's popular vote in Oregan was about 14,000, which, added to the 326,369 received in the above named sixtes, gave him over one third of a million votes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE GRADUATES IN RUNNING | 6/8/1920 | See Source »

...United States do not require a large navy. (a) We have no distant colonies to defend:- Holman's speech, Congressional Record, vol. 18, Appendix, p. 97; (b) we have proved our ability to maintain our rights without the support or a large navy, e. g. the Oregan Question, (see Schouler's History of the United States, vol 4, p. 503); The Alabama claims:- (see McCarthy, History of Our Own Times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English 6. | 4/26/1889 | See Source »

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