Word: paced
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...remember, to our detriment as a nation. Slow learners receive most of the attention, and huge sums of money are allotted to educate them. If students are bright, they are left pretty much on their own. In integrated classes, they are forced to learn at the pace of the slowest. We need to raise the bar. There are exceptions to the rule, but on the whole not enough attention is paid to bright children. They need special classes too--and more money spent on them...
Parents of gifted children must accept responsibility for meeting their children's needs. Home-schooled students stay with their families and communities; they choose friends and activities according to their personalities and interests and learn at their own pace. Many home-schooled children begin taking community-college courses in their early teens without leaving home, so they don't suffer the social isolation of the "hurried child" who leaves home for university life before he has matured. For those who fear they cannot teach or do not have time to teach, rest assured that there are options ranging from Internet...
...same corner, over and over. Deny him the pleasures of the sport." Another tedium tactic is to take extra time between points. "He's a rhythmic kind of player," says ex-pro Barry MacKay, a veteran TV commentator. "He likes to have things moving along at a certain pace. It's like a batter stepping out of a batter's box against a great pitcher. You're saying, 'Hey, this guy is not in charge...
...first, remarkably successful 100 days in office. However, he'd probably be wise to consider it a relatively harmless harbinger of more troubling events likely to await him during his second 100 days. Up until now, Sarkozy has impressed the French and world public with his relentless pace in attacking challenges both at home and abroad. He has smoothly guided through several contested legal and economic reforms in France; he's meanwhile staged diplomatic coups by brokering an agreement on European Union construction, engineering the freeing of seven Bulgarian medics held by Libya, and improved Franco-American by establishing...
...Pacific region, which stretches from Japan to Australia and east to Hawaii, and is home to 75% of the world's coral reefs. The outlook is grim. Between 1968 and 2003, more than 600 sq. mi. of reef disappeared in the region - that's 1% a year, twice the pace of rainforest decline - and the losses are hitting well-protected areas like the Great Barrier Reef just as hard as the stressed, overfished reefs that surround crowded countries like the Philippines. "People thought the Pacific was in much better shape," says John Bruno, lead author of the study, which...