Word: paged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...work. One company offers to research any topic, and in one to two weeks, produce a neatly and professionally printed paper "written by college professors," mailed, e-mailed or faxed to the student. In exchange, the student must prepay in full, with rates starting at $5 a page for high school reports...
...clearly not so fine. In their investigation, B.U. officials posed as students needing a paper to submit for an English class. The clear intent to plagiarize did not stand in the way of the transaction. In some cases papers were even provided to students with a cover page noting the student's name, the professor's name and the date. If only Cliffs Notes were so helpful...
...true that conservatives have taken up phonics as a cause, but in California, where there are plenty of liberals in the legislature, pro-phonics legislation passed unanimously. Asked what the best response to pro-phonics research is, Goodman refers to his book Phonics Phacts, a folksy 100-page paperback. Preferring the "ethnographic" data he collects, Goodman dismisses the research conducted by his opponents. Asked if there is research from other fields that confirms his findings, he cannot think of any. His final defense is that phonics teaches the ability to recognize individual words, not to understand text, but studies confirm...
Goodman's and Smith's theories have been put into practice very directly. At a whole-language school in New York City that TIME visited, a first-grade teacher had put a Post-it on the last word on every page of a book. The children tried to guess the hidden words. "Why do I cover words when we read a new book?" the teacher asked. "So that we can practice our skipping strategy. That's your most important skill...
...going to quibble? Certainly nobody in South Florida, where residents are suddenly gaga over Bo(nilla), Co(nine) and Mo(ises Alou), and where readers of the Miami Herald were treated to a Wednesday, Oct. 15, front page devoted entirely to the Marlins...